As it has for Sun, the Internet can help your products gain visibility, extend your reach beyond the limitations of time zones and multiple languages, and enable you to execute integrated marketing, sales, and support programs all over the world. After a November 1995 split, share value has nearly doubled Current SUNW stock information Most importantly, Sun is making key investments to grow our business, including our enterprise-level field sales, service and support, demand creation, application performance tuning, and software partner relationships, as well as in our own internal business process simplification goals. Using the Internet to Sell and Deliver Software SunSoft created a Web page to help qualify sales leads and fulfill literature requests. For the worldwide sales force, regional price books on the internal Web include hypertext links to product pricing and ordering information. With a SunSpectrum contract, customers can even download patches and documentation.
Online upgrades are far easier, faster, and less expensive than upgrades through the mails.
And the delivery is immediate. Taking Care of Uncle Sam Government employees can use a Web-based catalog to order Sun's products and obtain technical specifications, literature, and price quotes for hardware, software, and service. A site like this is an ideal way to fulfill the requirements of a large government contract. Web site response allows Sun to better estimate demand for first run book printings. Coming soon, online ordering.