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Joy joins US venture group Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers

Bill Joy, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, has joined as a partner at US venture group Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers. Joy said in a statement that he has worked with the KPCB network since co-founding Sun in 1982 and that now 'the pace of innovation is accelerating - making this the best of times for entrepreneurs, and for me to become a KPCB partner.'

John Doerr of KPCB commented, 'It's our tradition every year end to ask Bill what innovations, what important ideas are just over the horizon. Last month we agreed we should work together.'

'Whether the innovation is in internet web services, software, architectures, energy, material science, info/life sciences - or entirely new fields - Bill's insights and relationships are respected and valued,' Doerr added.

Joy led Sun Microsystems' technical strategy from the founding of the company in 1982 until September 2003. While at Sun Joy was a key designer of Sun technologies including Solaris, SPARC, chip architectures and pipelines, and Java. Before co-founding Sun, Joy designed and wrote Berkeley UNIX - the first open source operating system with built-in TCP/IP, making it the backbone of the Internet.

Founded in 1972, KPCB has backed entrepreneurs in 450 ventures including AOL, Amazon.com, Citrix, Compaq Computer, Electronic Arts, Genentech, Genomic Health and Google. KPCB also backed Sun Microsystems financially.

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