Sun Microsystems: Defunct American computer hardware and software company
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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. Sun's headquarters were in Santa Clara, California. In January 2010, it was bought by Oracle Corporation.
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| Company type | Public |
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| Founded | February 24, 1982 |
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| Defunct | January 27, 2010 |
| Fate | Acquired by Oracle |
| Headquarters | , U.S. |
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| Owner | Oracle Corporation |
Number of employees | 38,600 (near peak, 2006) |
| Website | www See Archived 4 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine. |
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