Sun connects to Internet. Words fail to describe how successful Sun has been. For a company to grow at that rate is just incredible. Sun's expanded alliances with Informix, Ingres, Oracle, and Sybase set the stage for our emergence as the number one database platform. Sun opens research and development center in France.
Manufacturing plant opens in Scotland.
More than half a million systems shipped to date. Sun unveils Solaris TM 2 operating environment, specially tuned for symetric multiprocessing. Operations begin in Latin America. Sun ships more multiprocessing UNIX servers in a single year than any other vendor shipped in its history. Sun makes its debut on the Fortune 500.