I need the answers to these five questions by Tuesday evening, October
29th.  They come from a case studay in the Strategic Management and
Business Policy text book (8th ed.)by Thomas Wheelen.

1) What are the strengths and weaknesses of Sun Microsystems?
2) Describe Sun's corporate climate.  Is it a strength of weakness?
3) Who are the prime competitors in the industry that Sun is part of?
4) What is the impact the Internet has on Sun's strategic planning?
5) Does Sun have any "core competencies"?  If yes, what are they?
 
Extra question:

Does Sun have a distinctive competency?  If yes, what is it?

1) What are the strengths and weaknesses of Sun Microsystems?
Strenghts  - Engineering, SPARC chipset, Architecture, Java 
Weaknesses - SPARC Chipset, large corporate OH, inefficient supply
chain, tough making money off Java
 
2) Describe Sun's corporate climate.  Is it a strength of weakness?
Very academic, consensus based it's a weakness
3) Who are the prime competitors in the industry that Sun is part of?
IBM, HP, Dell, Microsoft 
4) What is the impact the Internet has on Sun's strategic planning?
Explosive growth, 96-2000, did not see the slow down, dot.com's were
major customers, Enron was $100M plus a year as well. No headging
5) Does Sun have any "core competencies"?  If yes, what are they? 
Engineering the fastest most powerful servers with excellent
scalability characteristics
Extra question: 
 
Does Sun have a distinctive competency?  If yes, what is it?