High-tech companies like SunMicrosystemsInc. and 3Com Corp. are also constantly running marketing campaigns aimed at their thousands of corporate customers and independent distributors.
The documents reveal that Carnivore was originally created in February 1997 under the name Omnivore, and it was originally proposed for a SunMicrosystemsInc.
He credited non-proprietary architecture, with its high rate of innovation and low cost, with helping break open the server market, once dominated by proprietary vendors such as SunMicrosystemsInc.