Sun Microsystems

Also known as Sun Microsystems, Inc., Sun, Stanford University Network

defunct American computer hardware and software company

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Sun Microsystems was an American company that designed and sold computer hardware and software before it ceased operations. The company was significant in the computing industry during its time, contributing to the development of technologies that shaped how computers worked.

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Employees: 34600
Official website: www.sun.com
Image: Sun Agnews Campus Bldgs 21 22.jpg

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inception: 1982-02-24
dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 2010-01-27
Commons category: Sun Microsystems
Stack Exchange tag: stackoverflow.com/tags/sun
native label: Sun Microsystems

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Sun Microsystems, Inc., often known as Sun for short, was an American technology company that existed from 1982 to 2010 which developed and sold computers, computer hardware, software, and information technology services. Sun contributed significantly to the evolution of several key computing technologies, among them Unix, RISC processors, thin client computing, and virtualized computing. At its height, Sun's headquarters were in Santa Clara, California (part of Silicon Valley), on the former west campus of the Agnews Developmental Center.

Sun products included computer servers and workstations built using Motorola 680x0 processors, then later their own RISC-based SPARC processor architecture, as well as on x86-based AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon processors. Sun also developed its own storage systems and a suite of software products, including the Unix-based SunOS and later Solaris operating systems, developer tools, Web infrastructure software, and identity management applications. Technologies that Sun created include the Java programming language, the Java platform and Network File System (NFS).