April Fool's Press Releases

Target: Eric Schmidt

SunStruck, the pranks division of Sun Microsystems, Inc., replaced all the furniture in Eric's office with a VW Beetle. They had to take apart and reassemble the beetle in order to get it through the office door. VW Beetle in office development plan.

Target: Bill Joy, Vice President of Research

Float his brand new Ferrari in landscape pond. Provide a rubber raft, life preserver and paddle for him to retrieve the car. Joy sets off car alarm climbing out of raft into car. See second photo.

Target: Scott McNealy, President and CEO

Response to Scott's favorite quote describing the Sun corporate strategy "All the wood behind one arrowhead." Construct a 60 foot arrow extending through his administrator's office, through Scott's office and through his 5th floor window and 12 feet out over the front entrance of the building.

Sun Adds Depth to Desktop Family with Entirely New Workgroup Environment
Include: Saline-Powered 3-D Graphics Models, High-Delivery SCUBA Devices

The SunDunk division of SunStruck, a recently-spun-off new wholly-owned subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc. today unveiled the world's first fully-underwater desktop environment based on the radically new SHARK desktop computers: the SHARKstation(tm)1 family.
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SunStruck Introduces Another Business Unit, SunPuck; Three New Shark Systems at New Palo Alto Headquarters
SunStruck/SunPuck Ices the Competition with Expanded Product Line

SunStruck, the pranks subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc., today announced its newest business unit, SunPuck, and the latest in its continuing sereis of SHARK(tm) systems.
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Emotons and Stakes Run High at Formula Sun One Grand Prix Championship

SunStruck, the pranks division of Sun Microsystems, Inc., today announced the first-ever Clocktower Grand Prix – the Silicon Valley "Formula Sun ONE" race – to provide a true test of executive-rank driving abilities and tolerance to public humiliation. The championship race features unsuspecting execs Eddy "Andretti" Zander and "Mika" McNealy, who will drive modified Formula 1 race cars (aka golf carts) designed to provide an exciting, yet arduous race.
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View Grand Prix course map.

Sun Introduces Next-Generation OpenWork Facility for Mobile 21st Century Workforce
Project EcoBox – An Extraordinarily Silly Idea

Sun Microsystems, Inc., today unveiled Project EcoBox, the latest in its popular line of Solarium(tm) shipping container-based products, and the cornerstone of the upcoming 3.0 release of Sun's OpenWork program, which is leading the mobile employee revolution. Project EcoBox is an ecologically-friendly variation on Sun's popular Project Blackbox and has been specially designed for "C" level executive occupancy. This newest portable "green" office will become the headquarters for Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz and CTO Greg Papadopoulos, effective immediately.
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