Joe Morrissey

Sun Microsystems, Inc. provides network computing infrastructure solutions. It offers its solutions under the Java technology platform, Solaris Operating System, MySQL database management system, Sun StorageTek storage solutions, and UltraSPARC processor brands. The company also develops networking computing products and technologies which include servers, storage, open source software, tools, and training. The company provides solutions to the social networking, entertainment, financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, retail, news, energy, and engineering companies. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

MySQL Americas, Inc. developed, supported and marketed open source database server software solutions. The company was founded in 1997 and was headquartered in Redwood Shores, CA.

AH Capital Management LLC (Andreessen Horowitz) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Lowell Andreessen and Ben A. Horowitz. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Hortonworks, Inc. engages in the provision of open-source global data management solutions. Its platforms allow enterprises to manage their data on a global basis, whether it is data-in-motion or data-at-rest. It offers the Apache projects, including Apache Hadoop, Apache NiFi, Apache Kafka, and Apache Spark, which individual clients can modify the source code of a particular open-source project and then commit those changes to the central repository. The company was founded by Robert Bearden, Alan F. Gates, Arun C. Murthy, Devaraj Das, Eric Baldeschwieler, Mahadev Konar, Owen O'Malley, Sanjay R. Radia, and Suresh Srinivas in April 2011 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.