Report Highlights Company's Practices that Drive Environmental, Economic and Social Progress Worldwide
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today released its second annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report, incorporating the company's responsibility
Demonstrating Sun's commitment to transparency and illustrating its philosophy of "Innovate, Act, Share," the report features the company's progress, its continued practice of openness and success through innovation. Sun leads with action and shares its technology as a means to drive economic and social progress worldwide.
Highlights from Sun's 2007 Corporate Social Responsibility report include:
* Sun's eco responsible servers, storage and software use less energy while providing the same (or better) performance as standard datacenter offerings.
* The company received a 10 out of 10 rating by Governance Metrics International (GMI) which scores for board accountability, financial disclosure and internal controls; shareholder rights; executive remuneration; takeover defenses and ownership base; and corporate behavior.
* Committed to openness and transparency, Sun sponsors more than 3,000 blogs by employees, including CEO and President Jonathan Schwartz and General Counsel Mike Dillon.
* As part of Sun's transparency, the company publishes monthly energy use and related CO2 emissions for its major U.S. facilities.
* Sun's Open Work program helped reduce the company's need for office space by more than 15 percent or 2.6 million square feet in FY07.
* Sun is the largest single contributor to open source communities, and has donated up to five times as much code as its competitors.
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