Sun appoints new MD for ANZ

Stan Beer
Thursday, 03 April 2008 12:19

IT People - People

Server vendor Sun Microsystems has appointed Duncan Bennet as Vice President and Managing Director for Australia and New Zealand, following a three month period of acting in the role.

Prior to his current role, Mr Bennet held a number of positions at Sun including Director of Sales and the Managing Director of Sun's software joint venture with Netscape called iPlanet.

Mr Bennet joined Sun through the Forte Software acquisition in 1999 and for the past three and a half years he has held the position of Director of Sales.

“For me, it’s a fascinating time to be at Sun.  We have the strongest ever product and services portfolio, which means we can now support a much wider range of customers and partners - from the large enterprise to the small business," Mr Bennet said.

Sun’s offerings range from AMD, Intel and SPARC processor-based server technology to disk and tape storage, thin clients, software and services. In January this year, Sun bought open source database developer MySQL for US$1 billion.

“As the largest contributor to the open source movement, Sun is committed to the business model at the heart of MySQL's success - to first invest in communities of users and developers and then create commercial services without customer lock in.  With more multi-national companies developing software in-house and then open sourcing them the trust and uptake in open source applications will continue to grow,” said Mr Bennet.