http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/23/sun-co-founder-departs-to-challenge-cisco/ News About Tech, Money and Innovation Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:54:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/23/sun-co-founder-departs-to-challenge-cisco/comment-page-1/#comment-832128 October 23, 2008 | next media update Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:06:00 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/?p=99507#comment-832128 [...] Sun Co-Founder Departs to Challenge Cisco VENTUREBEAT Pounded by the stock markets after a poor showing in its recent earnings report, Sun Microsystems now has another thing to worry about: Co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim, who most recently served as chief architect for its systems group, is leaving to help run a startup called Arista that will reportedly make networking equipment for a growing industry segment. Aside from helping to found Sun in 1982 with Scott McNealy, Vinod Khosla and Bill Joy (the latter two are now venture capitalists), Bechtolsheim is famous for being one of the very first investors in Google and also co-founded a company called Granite Systems in 1995, which later sold to Cisco for $220 million. Source> [...] [...] Sun Co-Founder Departs to Challenge Cisco VENTUREBEAT Pounded by the stock markets after a poor showing in its recent earnings report, Sun Microsystems now has another thing to worry about: Co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim, who most recently served as chief architect for its systems group, is leaving to help run a startup called Arista that will reportedly make networking equipment for a growing industry segment. Aside from helping to found Sun in 1982 with Scott McNealy, Vinod Khosla and Bill Joy (the latter two are now venture capitalists), Bechtolsheim is famous for being one of the very first investors in Google and also co-founded a company called Granite Systems in 1995, which later sold to Cisco for $220 million. Source> [...]

]]> http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/23/sun-co-founder-departs-to-challenge-cisco/comment-page-1/#comment-831875 Arista Networks Goes After the Cloud | Viraload Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:59:09 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/?p=99507#comment-831875 [...] VentureBeat Sun Co Founder Departs to Challange Cisco   [...] [...] VentureBeat Sun Co Founder Departs to Challange Cisco   [...]

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