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Sun Microsystems, Inc., often known as Sun for short, was an American technology company that existed from 1982 to 2010 [2] which developed and sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services.
The acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation was completed on January 27, 2010. [1] After the acquisition was completed, Oracle, only a software vendor prior to the merger, owned Sun's hardware product lines, such as SPARC Enterprise, as well as Sun's software product lines, including the Java programming language.
In 1982, Khosla co-founded Sun Microsystems (SUN is the acronym for the Stanford University Network), along with Stanford classmates Scott McNealy, Andy Bechtolsheim, who was licensing a computer design to local companies. [16] UC Berkeley computer science graduate student Bill Joy later joined the company as co-founder. Sun Microsystems sold ...
Sun Microsystems: Computer servers, storage, networks, Java, MySQL database, software, and services $7,400 January 4, 2010 Silver Creek Systems Product Data Quality Solutions for connecting Enterprise systems, Customers, Suppliers and Partners. 2009: October 12, 2009 SOPHOI Intellectual property management for Media & Entertainment Industry
A courtyard at the Sun main campus in Santa Clara, California. Sun Microsystems, from its inception in 1982 to its acquisition by Oracle Corporation in 2010, became known for being "something of a farm system for Silicon Valley." [1] It had a number of employees credited with notable achievements before, during or after their tenure there.
Sun Microsystems. In 1982, Scott McNealy co-founded Sun Microsystems. He became the company’s first CEO and saw it through its evolution from a hardware company to a provider of hardware and ...
Oracle Solaris is a proprietary Unix operating system offered by Oracle for SPARC and x86-64 based workstations and servers.Originally developed by Sun Microsystems as Solaris, it superseded the company's earlier SunOS in 1993 and became known for its scalability, especially on SPARC systems, and for originating many innovative features such as DTrace, ZFS and Time Slider.
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today it would bar Sun Microsystems co-founder and early Google investor Andreas “Andy” Bechtolsheim for allegedly improperly trading based on ...