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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.
A rusting Sun Microsystems van as seen at the Oracle-acquired Santa Clara, California campus in 2016. Several notable engineers resigned following the acquisition, including James Gosling, the creator of Java (resigned April 2010); Tim Bray, the creator of XML (resigned February 2010); Kohsuke Kawaguchi, lead developer of Hudson (resigned April 2010); and Bryan Cantrill, the co-creator of ...
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by Oracle for SPARC and x86-64 based workstations and servers.Originally developed by Sun Microsystems as Solaris, it superseded the company's earlier SunOS in 1993 and became known for its scalability, especially on SPARC systems, and for originating many innovative features such as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 ...
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.
Scott McNealy (born November 13, 1954) is an American businessman. He is most famous for co-founding the computer technology company Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy, and Andy Bechtolsheim.
Bechtolsheim licensed the design to become the basis of the products of Sun Microsystems (whose name was a pun based [4] on the SUN acronym). The CPU board could be configured with Bechtolsheim's experimental Ethernet boards, or commercial 10 megabit/second boards made by 3Com or others to act as a router. [ 2 ]
OpenSolaris (/ ˌ oʊ p ən s ə ˈ l ɑːr ɪ s / [6]) is a discontinued open-source computer operating system for SPARC and x86 based systems, created by Sun Microsystems and based on Solaris.