Janpieter Scheerder, retired from Sun Microsystems after 10 years in senior executive positions, was last the president of the SunSoft division. In that role, he was responsible for the development, engineering, marketing and sales of Sun's software products, including the Solaris operating system. He also served as vice president and general manager of Sun's network servers and information products group, where he directed activities for Sun's server and storage products. Before his tenure at Sun, Janpieter was a senior executive with Data General for 15 years, holding various sales, marketing and engineering positions. His many notable accomplishments there included overseeing engineering for the first of that company's highly successful Aviion and Clariion RAID products.