A few months later Microsoft's arch-rival, Google, began building something on an even grander scale one of the largest corporate solar installations to date.
Sun's new executive vice president for software, Jonathan Schwartz, says that with this new strategy, Sun will approach large corporate computing installations and try to persuade them to break away from Microsoft and its Office applications.
While the language never came close to becoming the one-size-fits-all blockbuster that Sun predicted, it nonetheless has carved out a role as a reliable element of large corporate software installations.
In the 1970s, carrying the banner of revolutionary destruction, the Weather Underground, a radical offshoot of Students for a Democratic Society, bombed a Bank of America branch as part of an anti-capitalist campaign whose targets included military installations, courthouses, corporate headquarters, the State Department, the Pentagon, and the US Capitol building.
The installation "The Corporate Headquarters," by Derek Doublin and Vanessa Bonet, was a highlight of the Coachella grounds that never ceased to amuse.
The panels will cover the roofs of the buildings, and Google says it is "the largest solar installation on any corporate campus in the U.S".
Many are designed as site-specific installations, supported by government, corporate or private funds.
The Endicott operation was one of the original installations of I.B.M.'s corporate predecessor, the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, founded by Thomas Watson Sr. in 1911.
With that in mind, Concrete Installation will adopt a corporate strategy that is dedicated to improving the performance of activities on the critical path of its customers' projects.
