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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 ...
Notable Sun employees included John Gilmore, Whitfield Diffie, Radia Perlman, Ivan Sutherland, Marc Tremblay, and Satya Nadella. Sun was an early advocate of Unix-based networked computing, promoting TCP/IP and especially NFS, as reflected in the company's motto The Network is the Computer, coined by John Gage.
On September 1, 2017, after a round of layoffs that started in Oracle Labs in November 2016, Oracle terminated SPARC design after completing the M8. Much of the processor core development group in Austin, Texas, was dismissed, as were the teams in Santa Clara, California, and Burlington, Massachusetts. [4] [5]
News of the layoffs came on the heels of Sprint's quarterly report, which divulged that the carrier had lost 100,000 subscribers during the last three months of 2007. 23. Sun Microsystems
Yet, the layoffs are a necessary step to help slim Oracle down. Besides, the company’s cloud-business growth will help keep Oracle on solid financial ground. As you may be aware, Oracle acquired ...
Oracle (ORCL) completed its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems back in January, but at least one analyst still expects to see shares of the business software and hardware company rise as ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 February 2025. American businessman and entrepreneur (born 1944) Larry Ellison Ellison in 2010 Born Lawrence Joseph Ellison (1944-08-17) August 17, 1944 (age 80) New York City, U.S. Education University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (no degree) University of Chicago (no degree) Occupations Businessman ...
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.