Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun for short) was an American company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services. Sun contributed to many important computing technologies, such as Unix, RISC processors, thin client computing, and virtualized computing. Sun created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, the Network File System (NFS), and the SPARC instruction set. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982.^[2] Sun's headquarters were in Santa Clara, California. In January 2010, it was bought by Oracle Corporation.

Sun Microsystems

Logo used from the 1990s until acquisition by Oracle
Company type	Public
Traded as	NASDAQ: SUNW NASDAQ: JAVA
Industry	information technology
Founded	February 24, 1982; 42 years ago (1982-02-24)
Founders	Scott McNealy Vinod Khosla Andy Bechtolsheim Bill Joy
Defunct	January 27, 2010 (2010-01-27)
Fate	Acquired by Oracle
Headquarters	Menlo Park, California , U.S.
Products	Servers Workstations Storage Services
Owner	Oracle Corporation
Number of employees	38,600 (near peak, 2006)[1]
Website	www.sun.com See Archived 4 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine.

References

1. "Company Info". Sun.com. Sun Microsystems. Archived from the original on August 28, 2006. Retrieved December 4, 2006.
2. "Churchill Club Presents: Scott McNealy in Conversation With Ed Zander" (Press release). Churchill Club. February 24, 2011. Archived from the original on August 2, 2020. Retrieved April 7, 2020.