Sun Microsystem has been at the forefront of green computing

What are your priorities for Sun India and what changes would you like to see within Sun India?
We would be serving the customer better, to have lot more partnerships alignedto again add the customer requirements and also look at how we are developing the employees. So clearly, my focuswould be on three constituencies, which are customers, partners and employees. So those are the three areas that we would be looking at in fine-tuning, and it could not be wholesome changes but these will be basically tweaks and fine-tunes.

There is a lot of buzz around green computing. How is Sun planning to balance environmental issues with scaling computing like power consummation and so on?
Sun is very much in the forfront of green computing, I think sometime back we did a campaign around eco-computing, green computing, using our black box and all that stuff. But the most important piece is we are not promoting green computing because it is fashionable and it is the right thing to do. We are doing it because our technologies are truly green. With the stuff we did around chip-based multi-threading which uses the CPU cycles when they are ideal to do other things. We have reduced power consummation phenomenally; we have increased the performance significantly without increasing the power requirements.

Anil Valluri VP and MD, Sun Microsystem

How many open office users are there in India?
I wouldn't know. Actually we don't track it because there are millions of users. We don't track that anymore.

Sun India grew by 30 percent last year. What are your projects for the next year?
We would like to do more than that. The point is, we would always look at the market, what it is in a year and are we going faster than the market or not. If we are growing at the market rate then we are not doing justice. If we are growing slower than the market then we are losing marketshare. The idea is always to gain marketshare points by growing faster than the market. That is the idea. Current IDC figures talk of 20 percent as market growth. So, we want to grow more than that. That is something, which we have been doing for ninse years now. We have been growing faster than the market. The idea would be to continue to beat the market growth. We want to grow more. And we have the right offerings to the marketplace, which are around services, x86 offerings, around the high-end enterprise servers, strengthening our presence in the telecom space, the banking space.. So, all of those pieces are the ones we are doing and investing, just to be ahead of the market and we will continue to do that.

How is your emerging market region going to benefit the customer?
The emerging market's region is a great idea for Sun. Because what we have looked around and said there are these traditional markets which are the US, and the Europe and the Japan, Australia and so on. These are developed markets. And there are markets which are new, typically big countries and some of those other ones, which are Middle East and so on

Srinivas R
dqc@cybermedia.co.in

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