On February 24, 1982, Scott McNealy, Andy Bechtolsheim, and Vinod Khosla, all Stanford graduate students, founded Sun Microsystems. He built the first examples from spare parts obtained from Stanford's Department of Computer Science and Silicon Valley supply houses.

It was designed around the Motorola 68000 processor with an advanced memory management unit (MMU) to support the Unix operating system with virtual memory support. Bechtolsheim originally designed the SUN workstation for the Stanford University Network communications project as a personal CAD workstation. The initial design for what became Sun's first Unix workstation, the Sun-1, was conceived by Andy Bechtolsheim when he was a graduate student at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Original Sun Microsystems logo, as used on the nameplate of the Sun-1 workstationįrom 1996 until 2010 / acquisition by Oracle Corporation The deal was completed on January 27, 2010. On April 20, 2009, it was announced that Oracle Corporation would acquire Sun for US$7.4 billion. However, by the time the company was acquired by Oracle, it had outsourced most manufacturing responsibilities. Īt various times, Sun had manufacturing facilities in several locations worldwide, including Newark, California Hillsboro, Oregon and Linlithgow, Scotland.

It was also a major contributor to open-source software, as evidenced by its $1 billion purchase, in 2008, of MySQL, an open-source relational database management system. In general, Sun was a proponent of open systems, particularly Unix. Technologies included the Java platform and NFS. Sun also developed its own storage systems and a suite of software products, including the Solaris operating system, developer tools, Web infrastructure software, and identity management applications. Sun products included computer servers and workstations built on its own RISC-based SPARC processor architecture, as well as on x86-based AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon processors. At its height, the Sun headquarters were in Santa Clara, California (part of Silicon Valley), on the former west campus of the Agnews Developmental Center. Notable Sun acquisitions include Cray Business Systems Division, Storagetek, and Innotek GmbH, creators of VirtualBox.

Sun contributed significantly to the evolution of several key computing technologies, among them Unix, RISC processors, thin client computing, and virtualized computing. ( Sun for short) was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the Network File System (NFS), and SPARC microprocessors. See Archived 4 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine.

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