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Sun Micro's Scott McNealy to visit in March

Bipin Chandran in New Delhi

Even as Bill Gates kicked off his third visit to India on Monday, his arch rival and Microsoft-basher, Scott McNealy, chairman, president and CEO of Sun Microsystems, is firming up plans to visit India in March next year.

"Scott will be here as a part of a business mission that would identify newer areas of opportunity for Sun in the country. Sun is also a company that has tremendously benefited from the talent pool here," Barbara Gordon, vice president, worldwide software sales, Sun Microsystems, told Business Standard.

McNealy, an amateur ice hockey player, had come out very strongly in favour of the US government's anti-trust lawsuits against Microsoft, the world's largest software company.

"Without choice, there is no competition. Without competition, there is no innovation. And without innovation, you are left with very little," he was quoted as saying.

McNealy's ideas about computing often pre-date industry trkends and are often controversial too. His famous statement that the network is the computer is an example of this.

McNealy, who co-founded Sun in 1982, is expected to announce fresh investments in the centre as well as the companys expansion plans.

The $13 billion Sun has invested about $100 million in India over the last few years and has an engineering centre in Bangalore.

The center, which has about 700 engineers is also expected to see phenomenal growth in the near future.

"Sun worldwide has about 4500 engineers and 700 of them are in India. In addition we have also completely designed and developed products out on India," Gordon said adding that the company is looking at growing the Indian center.

Since taking the reins as CEO in 1984, McNealy has steered Sun to constant growth and innovation.

His vision and business acumen have made him one of the most influential and widely quoted leaders in the global IT industry.

McNealy graduated from Harvard with a BA in Economics. He followed that with an MBA from Stanford.

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