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href="#Java_platform"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2</span> <span>Java platform</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Java_platform-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Office_suite" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Office_suite"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.3</span> <span>Office suite</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Office_suite-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Virtualization_and_datacenter_automation_software" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Virtualization_and_datacenter_automation_software"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.4</span> <span>Virtualization and datacenter automation software</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Virtualization_and_datacenter_automation_software-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B5%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%B2" title="صن ميكروسيستمز – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="صن ميكروسيستمز" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%B2" title="سان مایکروسیستمز – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="سان مایکروسیستمز" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%8D%E2%80%8C%E0%A6%B8" title="সান মাইক্রোসিস্টেম্‌স – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="সান মাইক্রোসিস্টেম্‌স" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%8A%D0%BD_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8A%D0%BC%D1%81" title="Сън Майкросистъмс – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Сън Майкросистъмс" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%B2" title="سان مایکروسیستمز – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="سان مایکروسیستمز" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8D%AC_%EB%A7%88%EC%9D%B4%ED%81%AC%EB%A1%9C%EC%8B%9C%EC%8A%A4%ED%85%9C%EC%A6%88" title="썬 마이크로시스템즈 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="썬 마이크로시스템즈" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%90%D7%9F_%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%9E%D7%A1" title="סאן מיקרוסיסטמס – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="סאן מיקרוסיסטמס" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%8D_%E0%B2%AE%E0%B3%88%E0%B2%95%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%8B%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%9F%E0%B2%AE%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D" title="ಸನ್ ಮೈಕ್ರೋಸಿಸ್ಟಮ್ಸ್ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಸನ್ ಮೈಕ್ರೋಸಿಸ್ಟಮ್ಸ್" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%BA_%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%88%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B4%82%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D" title="സൺ മൈക്രോസിസ്റ്റംസ് – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="സൺ മൈക്രോസിസ്റ്റംസ്" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%86%E1%80%94%E1%80%BA%E1%80%B8_%E1%80%99%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%80%E1%80%BA%E1%80%81%E1%80%9B%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF_%E1%80%85%E1%80%85%E1%80%BA%E1%80%85%E1%80%90%E1%80%99%E1%80%BA" title="ဆန်း မိုက်ခရို စစ်စတမ် – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="ဆန်း မိုက်ခရို စစ်စတမ်" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%A8_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8B_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D" title="सन माइक्रो सिस्टमस् – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="सन माइक्रो सिस्टमस्" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B7%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%83%A0%E3%82%BA" title="サン・マイクロシステムズ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="サン・マイクロシステムズ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%A8_%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%88%E0%A8%95%E0%A8%B0%E0%A9%8B%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%9F%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%9C%E0%A8%BC" title="ਸਨ ਮਾਈਕਰੋਸਿਸਟਮਜ਼ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਸਨ ਮਾਈਕਰੋਸਿਸਟਮਜ਼" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kaa mw-list-item"><a href="https://kaa.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Kara-Kalpak" lang="kaa" hreflang="kaa" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Qaraqalpaqsha" data-language-local-name="Kara-Kalpak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Qaraqalpaqsha</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a href="https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B7%83%E0%B6%B1%E0%B7%8A_%E0%B6%B8%E0%B6%BA%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%9A%E0%B7%8A%E2%80%8D%E0%B6%BB%E0%B7%9D%E0%B7%83%E0%B7%92%E0%B7%83%E0%B7%8A%E0%B6%A7%E0%B6%B8%E0%B7%8A%E0%B7%83%E0%B7%8A" title="සන් මයික්‍රෝසිස්ටම්ස් – Sinhala" lang="si" hreflang="si" data-title="සන් මයික්‍රෝසිස්ටම්ස්" data-language-autonym="සිංහල" data-language-local-name="Sinhala" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>සිංහල</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%88%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8B%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B8%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B8%E0%AF%8D" title="சன் மைக்ரோசிஸ்டம்ஸ் – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="சன் மைக்ரோசிஸ்டம்ஸ்" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-shn mw-list-item"><a href="https://shn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%9E%E1%81%A2%E1%81%BC%E1%80%BA%E1%80%B8_%E1%80%99%E1%81%A2%E1%82%86%E1%82%89%E1%81%B6%E1%80%9B%E1%80%B0%E1%80%9D%E1%80%BA%E1%82%87_%E1%81%B8%E1%80%AD%E1%80%90%E1%80%BA%E1%82%89%E1%80%9E%E1%80%90%E1%80%99%E1%80%BA%E1%82%87" title="သၢၼ်း မၢႆႉၶရူဝ်ႇ ၸိတ်ႉသတမ်ႇ – Shan" lang="shn" hreflang="shn" data-title="သၢၼ်း မၢႆႉၶရူဝ်ႇ ၸိတ်ႉသတမ်ႇ" data-language-autonym="ၽႃႇသႃႇတႆး " data-language-local-name="Shan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ၽႃႇသႃႇတႆး </span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-te mw-list-item"><a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%88%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8B_%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9F%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D" title="సన్ మైక్రో సిస్టమ్స్ – Telugu" lang="te" hreflang="te" data-title="సన్ మైక్రో సిస్టమ్స్" data-language-autonym="తెలుగు" data-language-local-name="Telugu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>తెలుగు</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%8B%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%99%E0%B9%84%E0%B8%A1%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%8B%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%AA%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%95%E0%B9%87%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%AA%E0%B9%8C" title="ซันไมโครซิสเต็มส์ – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="ซันไมโครซิสเต็มส์" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Sun Microsystems" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tiếng Việt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wuu mw-list-item"><a href="https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%AA%E9%98%B3%E8%AE%A1%E7%AE%97%E6%9C%BA%E7%B3%BB%E7%BB%9F" title="太阳计算机系统 – Wu" lang="wuu" hreflang="wuu" data-title="太阳计算机系统" data-language-autonym="吴语" data-language-local-name="Wu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>吴语</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-yue mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%AA%E9%99%BD%E9%9B%BB%E8%85%A6" title="太陽電腦 – Cantonese" lang="yue" hreflang="yue" data-title="太陽電腦" data-language-autonym="粵語" data-language-local-name="Cantonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>粵語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%98%87%E9%99%BD%E9%9B%BB%E8%85%A6" title="昇陽電腦 – 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line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Ticker_symbol" title="Ticker symbol">Traded as</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist nowrap"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nasdaq" title="Nasdaq">Nasdaq</a>: SUNW (1986–2007)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Nasdaq" title="Nasdaq">Nasdaq</a>: JAVA (2007–2010)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Industry</th><td class="infobox-data category"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Information_technology" title="Information technology">Information technology</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">February 24, 1982<span class="noprint">; 42 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1982-02-24</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founders</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Scott_McNealy" title="Scott McNealy">Scott McNealy</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Vinod_Khosla" title="Vinod Khosla">Vinod Khosla</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Andy_Bechtolsheim" title="Andy Bechtolsheim">Andy Bechtolsheim</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Joy" title="Bill Joy">Bill Joy</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Defunct</th><td class="infobox-data">January 27, 2010<span class="noprint">; 14 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="dtend">2010-01-27</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fate</th><td class="infobox-data">Acquired by <a href="/wiki/Oracle_Corporation" title="Oracle Corporation">Oracle Corporation</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div class="ib-company-locality locality"><a href="/wiki/Santa_Clara,_California" title="Santa Clara, California">Santa Clara, California</a></div>, <div class="ib-company-country country-name">U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Products</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Server_(computing)" title="Server (computing)">Servers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Workstation" title="Workstation">Workstations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Computer_data_storage" title="Computer data storage">Storage</a></li> <li>Services</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Owner</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Oracle_Corporation" title="Oracle Corporation">Oracle Corporation</a> (2010)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Number of employees</div></th><td class="infobox-data">38,600 (near peak, 2006)<sup id="cite_ref-Sun_infopage_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sun_infopage-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sun.com/">www<wbr />.sun<wbr />.com</a></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">(see: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100104070711/http://www.sun.com:80/">archived version</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>)</span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Sun Microsystems, Inc.</b> (<b>Sun</b> for short) was an American technology company that sold <a href="/wiki/Computer" title="Computer">computers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Computer_components" class="mw-redirect" title="Computer components">computer components</a>, <a href="/wiki/Software" title="Software">software</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Information_technology" title="Information technology">information technology</a> services and created the <a href="/wiki/Java_(programming_language)" title="Java (programming language)">Java programming language</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Solaris_operating_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Solaris operating system">Solaris operating system</a>, <a href="/wiki/ZFS" title="ZFS">ZFS</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Network_File_System" title="Network File System">Network File System</a> (NFS), and <a href="/wiki/SPARC" title="SPARC">SPARC</a> <a href="/wiki/Microprocessor" title="Microprocessor">microprocessors</a>. Sun contributed significantly to the evolution of several key computing technologies, among them <a href="/wiki/Unix" title="Unix">Unix</a>, <a href="/wiki/Reduced_instruction_set_computer" title="Reduced instruction set computer">RISC processors</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thin_client" title="Thin client">thin client</a> computing, and <a href="/wiki/Virtualization" title="Virtualization">virtualized computing</a>. Notable Sun acquisitions include <a href="/wiki/Cray_Business_Systems_Division" class="mw-redirect" title="Cray Business Systems Division">Cray Business Systems Division</a>, <a href="/wiki/Storagetek" class="mw-redirect" title="Storagetek">Storagetek</a>, and <i>Innotek GmbH</i>, creators of <a href="/wiki/VirtualBox" title="VirtualBox">VirtualBox</a>. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At its height, the Sun headquarters were in <a href="/wiki/Santa_Clara,_California" title="Santa Clara, California">Santa Clara, California</a> (part of <a href="/wiki/Silicon_Valley" title="Silicon Valley">Silicon Valley</a>), on the former west campus of the <a href="/wiki/Agnews_Developmental_Center" title="Agnews Developmental Center">Agnews Developmental Center</a>. </p><p>Sun products included <a href="/wiki/Computer_server" class="mw-redirect" title="Computer server">computer servers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Workstation" title="Workstation">workstations</a> built on its own <a href="/wiki/Reduced_instruction_set_computer" title="Reduced instruction set computer">RISC</a>-based <a href="/wiki/SPARC_processor_architecture" class="mw-redirect" title="SPARC processor architecture">SPARC processor architecture</a>, as well as on <a href="/wiki/X86" title="X86">x86</a>-based <a href="/wiki/AMD" title="AMD">AMD</a> <a href="/wiki/Opteron" title="Opteron">Opteron</a> and <a href="/wiki/Intel" title="Intel">Intel</a> <a href="/wiki/Xeon" title="Xeon">Xeon</a> processors. Sun also developed its own <a href="/wiki/Computer_storage" class="mw-redirect" title="Computer storage">storage</a> systems and a suite of software products, including the <a href="/wiki/Solaris_operating_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Solaris operating system">Solaris operating system</a>, developer tools, Web infrastructure software, and <a href="/wiki/Identity_management" class="mw-redirect" title="Identity management">identity management</a> applications. Technologies included the <a href="/wiki/Java_(software_platform)" title="Java (software platform)">Java platform</a> and <a href="/wiki/Network_File_System" title="Network File System">NFS</a>. </p><p>In general, Sun was a proponent of open systems, particularly Unix. It was also a major contributor to <a href="/wiki/Open-source_software" title="Open-source software">open-source software</a>, as evidenced by its $1 billion purchase, in 2008, of <a href="/wiki/MySQL" title="MySQL">MySQL</a>, an open-source <a href="/wiki/Relational_database_management_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Relational database management system">relational database management system</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At various times, Sun had manufacturing facilities in several locations worldwide, including <a href="/wiki/Newark,_California" title="Newark, California">Newark, California</a>; <a href="/wiki/Hillsboro,_Oregon" title="Hillsboro, Oregon">Hillsboro, Oregon</a>; and <a href="/wiki/Linlithgow,_Scotland" class="mw-redirect" title="Linlithgow, Scotland">Linlithgow, Scotland</a>. However, by the time the company was acquired by <a href="/wiki/Oracle_Corporation" title="Oracle Corporation">Oracle Corporation</a>, it had outsourced most manufacturing responsibilities. </p><p>On April 20, 2009, it was announced that <a href="/wiki/Acquisition_of_Sun_Microsystems_by_Oracle_Corporation" title="Acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation">Oracle would acquire Sun</a> for <span style="white-space: nowrap">US$</span>7.4 billion. The deal was completed on January 27, 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-completion_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-completion-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Microsystems&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable floatright"> <tbody><tr> <td> <table style="font-size:90%; line-height:1.4em; width:230px; border-collapse:collapse; margin:0"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2" style="text-align: center;">Sun Microsystems logo history </th></tr> <tr style="border-bottom:1px solid #999"> <td><b>Logo</b></td> <td><b>Years</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sun-1_Badge.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Sun-1_Badge.jpg/150px-Sun-1_Badge.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="46" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Sun-1_Badge.jpg/225px-Sun-1_Badge.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Sun-1_Badge.jpg/300px-Sun-1_Badge.jpg 2x" data-file-width="849" data-file-height="260" /></a></span></td> <td><small>Original Sun Microsystems logo, as used on the nameplate of the <a href="/wiki/Sun-1" title="Sun-1">Sun-1</a> workstation</small> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sun_Microsystems_1980s_logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Sun_Microsystems_1980s_logo.svg/150px-Sun_Microsystems_1980s_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="59" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Sun_Microsystems_1980s_logo.svg/225px-Sun_Microsystems_1980s_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Sun_Microsystems_1980s_logo.svg/300px-Sun_Microsystems_1980s_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="157" data-file-height="62" /></a></span></td> <td><small>Revised logo, used from 1983 to 1996</small> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sun-Logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Sun-Logo.svg/150px-Sun-Logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="65" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Sun-Logo.svg/225px-Sun-Logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Sun-Logo.svg/300px-Sun-Logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="129" data-file-height="56" /></a></span></td> <td><small>From 1996 until 2010 / acquisition by Oracle Corporation</small> </td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The initial design for what became Sun's first Unix <a href="/wiki/Workstation" title="Workstation">workstation</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Sun-1" title="Sun-1">Sun-1</a>, was conceived by <a href="/wiki/Andy_Bechtolsheim" title="Andy Bechtolsheim">Andy Bechtolsheim</a> when he was a graduate student at <a href="/wiki/Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a> in <a href="/wiki/Palo_Alto" class="mw-redirect" title="Palo Alto">Palo Alto</a>, California. Bechtolsheim originally designed the <a href="/wiki/SUN_workstation" title="SUN workstation">SUN workstation</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Stanford_University_Network" title="Stanford University Network">Stanford University Network</a> communications project as a personal <a href="/wiki/CAD_workstation" class="mw-redirect" title="CAD workstation">CAD workstation</a>. It was designed around the <a href="/wiki/Motorola_68000_processor" class="mw-redirect" title="Motorola 68000 processor">Motorola 68000 processor</a> with an advanced <a href="/wiki/Memory_management_unit" title="Memory management unit">memory management unit</a> (MMU) to support the Unix operating system with <a href="/wiki/Virtual_memory" title="Virtual memory">virtual memory</a> support.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He built the first examples from spare parts obtained from Stanford's <a href="/wiki/Stanford_University_School_of_Engineering" title="Stanford University School of Engineering">Department of Computer Science</a> and Silicon Valley supply houses.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On February 24, 1982, <a href="/wiki/Scott_McNealy" title="Scott McNealy">Scott McNealy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Andy_Bechtolsheim" title="Andy Bechtolsheim">Andy Bechtolsheim</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Vinod_Khosla" title="Vinod Khosla">Vinod Khosla</a>, all Stanford graduate students, founded <i>Sun Microsystems</i>. <a href="/wiki/Bill_Joy" title="Bill Joy">Bill Joy</a> of Berkeley, a primary developer of the <a href="/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution" title="Berkeley Software Distribution">Berkeley Software Distribution</a> (BSD), joined soon after and is counted as one of the original founders.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The company was the second, after rival <a href="/wiki/Apollo_Computer" title="Apollo Computer">Apollo Computer</a>, to specialize in workstations.<sup id="cite_ref-nicholls198902_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nicholls198902-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The name "Sun" is derived from the initials of the Stanford University Network (SUN).<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sun was profitable from its first quarter in July 1982. </p><p>By 1983, Sun was known for producing <a href="/wiki/Motorola_68000" title="Motorola 68000">68k-based systems</a> with high-quality graphics that were the only computers other than <a href="/wiki/Digital_Equipment_Corporation" title="Digital Equipment Corporation">DEC</a>'s <a href="/wiki/VAX" title="VAX">VAX</a> to run <a href="/wiki/4.2BSD" class="mw-redirect" title="4.2BSD">4.2BSD</a>. It licensed the <a href="/wiki/Computer_architecture" title="Computer architecture">computer design</a> to other manufacturers, which typically used it to build <a href="/wiki/Multibus" title="Multibus">Multibus</a>-based systems running Unix from <a href="/wiki/UniSoft" title="UniSoft">UniSoft</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-fiedler198310_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fiedler198310-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sun's initial public offering was in 1986 under the <a href="/wiki/Ticker_symbol" title="Ticker symbol">stock symbol</a> <i>SUNW</i>, for <i>Sun Workstations</i> (later <i>Sun Worldwide</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The symbol was changed in 2007 to <i>JAVA</i>; Sun stated that the <a href="/wiki/Brand_awareness" title="Brand awareness">brand awareness</a> associated with its Java platform better represented the company's current strategy.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sun's logo, which features four interleaved copies of the word <i>sun</i> in the form of a rotationally symmetric <a href="/wiki/Ambigram" title="Ambigram">ambigram</a>, was designed by professor <a href="/wiki/Vaughan_Pratt" title="Vaughan Pratt">Vaughan Pratt</a>, also of Stanford. The initial version of the logo was orange and had the sides oriented horizontally and vertically, but it was subsequently rotated to stand on one corner and re-colored purple, and later blue. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dot-com_bubble_and_aftermath">Dot-com bubble and aftermath</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Microsystems&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Dot-com bubble and aftermath"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the <a href="/wiki/Dot-com_bubble" title="Dot-com bubble">dot-com bubble</a>, Sun began making more money, with its stock rising as high as $250 per share.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It also began spending much more, hiring workers and building itself out. Some of this was because of genuine demand, but much was from web start-up companies anticipating business that would never happen. In 2000, the bubble burst.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sales in Sun's important hardware division went into free-fall as customers closed shop and auctioned high-end servers. </p><p>Several quarters of steep losses led to executive departures, rounds of layoffs,<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and other cost cutting. In December 2001, the stock fell to the 1998, pre-bubble level of about $100. It continued to fall, faster than many other technology companies. A year later, it had reached below $10 (a tenth of what it was in 1990), but it eventually bounced back to $20. In mid-2004, Sun closed their <a href="/wiki/Newark,_California" title="Newark, California">Newark, California</a>, factory and consolidated all manufacturing to Hillsboro, Oregon and Linlithgow, Scotland.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2006, the rest of the Newark campus was put on the market.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Post-crash_focus">Post-crash focus</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Microsystems&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Post-crash focus"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Meta_HQ_2023.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Meta_HQ_2023.png/220px-Meta_HQ_2023.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="119" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Meta_HQ_2023.png/330px-Meta_HQ_2023.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Meta_HQ_2023.png/440px-Meta_HQ_2023.png 2x" data-file-width="2900" data-file-height="1568" /></a><figcaption>Former <a href="/wiki/Menlo_Park,_California" title="Menlo Park, California">Menlo Park</a> campus, now owned by <a href="/wiki/Meta_Platforms" title="Meta Platforms">Meta Platforms</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sun_Agnews_Campus_Bldgs_21_22.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Sun_Agnews_Campus_Bldgs_21_22.jpg/220px-Sun_Agnews_Campus_Bldgs_21_22.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="162" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Sun_Agnews_Campus_Bldgs_21_22.jpg/330px-Sun_Agnews_Campus_Bldgs_21_22.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Sun_Agnews_Campus_Bldgs_21_22.jpg/440px-Sun_Agnews_Campus_Bldgs_21_22.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3528" data-file-height="2601" /></a><figcaption>Buildings 21 and 22 at Sun's headquarters campus in Santa Clara</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SunCanada.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/SunCanada.jpg/220px-SunCanada.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/SunCanada.jpg/330px-SunCanada.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/SunCanada.jpg/440px-SunCanada.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2816" data-file-height="2112" /></a><figcaption>Sun in <a href="/wiki/Markham,_Ontario" title="Markham, Ontario">Markham, Ontario</a>, Canada</figcaption></figure> <p>In 2004, Sun canceled two major processor projects which emphasized high <a href="/wiki/Instruction-level_parallelism" title="Instruction-level parallelism">instruction-level parallelism</a> and operating frequency. Instead, the company chose to concentrate on processors optimized for <a href="/wiki/Multithreading_(computer_architecture)" title="Multithreading (computer architecture)">multi-threading</a> and <a href="/wiki/Multiprocessing" title="Multiprocessing">multiprocessing</a>, such as the <a href="/wiki/UltraSPARC_T1" title="UltraSPARC T1">UltraSPARC T1</a> processor (codenamed "Niagara"). The company also announced a collaboration with <a href="/wiki/Fujitsu" title="Fujitsu">Fujitsu</a> to use the Japanese company's processor chips in mid-range and high-end Sun servers. These servers were announced on April 17, 2007, as the M-Series, part of the <a href="/wiki/SPARC_Enterprise" title="SPARC Enterprise">SPARC Enterprise</a> series. </p><p>In February 2005, Sun announced the <a href="/wiki/Sun_Grid" class="mw-redirect" title="Sun Grid">Sun Grid</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Grid_computing" title="Grid computing">grid computing</a> deployment on which it offered <a href="/wiki/Utility_computing" title="Utility computing">utility computing</a> services priced at US$1 per CPU/hour for processing and per GB/month for storage. This offering built upon an existing 3,000-CPU server farm used for internal R&D for over 10 years, which Sun marketed as being able to achieve 97% utilization. In August 2005, the first commercial use of this grid was announced for financial risk simulations which were later launched as its first <a href="/wiki/Software_as_a_service" title="Software as a service">software as a service</a> product.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In January 2005, Sun reported a net profit of $19 million for fiscal 2005 second quarter, for the first time in three years. This was followed by net loss of $9 million on <a href="/wiki/Generally_accepted_accounting_principles" class="mw-redirect" title="Generally accepted accounting principles">GAAP</a> basis for the third quarter 2005, as reported on April 14, 2005. In January 2007, Sun reported a net GAAP profit of $126 million on revenue of $3.337 billion for its fiscal second quarter. Shortly following that news, it was announced that <a href="/wiki/Kohlberg_Kravis_Roberts" title="Kohlberg Kravis Roberts">Kohlberg Kravis Roberts</a> (KKR) would invest $700 million in the company.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sun had engineering groups in <a href="/wiki/Bangalore" class="mw-redirect" title="Bangalore">Bangalore</a>, <a href="/wiki/Beijing" title="Beijing">Beijing</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grenoble" title="Grenoble">Grenoble</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hamburg" title="Hamburg">Hamburg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Prague" title="Prague">Prague</a>, <a href="/wiki/St._Petersburg" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Petersburg">St. Petersburg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tel_Aviv" title="Tel Aviv">Tel Aviv</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tokyo" title="Tokyo">Tokyo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Canberra" title="Canberra">Canberra</a> and <a href="/wiki/Trondheim" title="Trondheim">Trondheim</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2007–2008, Sun posted revenue of $13.8 billion and had $2 billion in cash. First-quarter 2008 losses were $1.68 billion; revenue fell 7% to $12.99 billion. Sun's stock lost 80% of its value November 2007 to November 2008, reducing the company's market value to $3 billion. With falling sales to large corporate clients, Sun announced plans to lay off 5,000 to 6,000 workers, or 15–18% of its work force. It expected to save $700 million to $800 million a year as a result of the moves, while also taking up to $600 million in charges.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sun_acquisitions">Sun acquisitions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Microsystems&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Sun acquisitions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output 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href="/wiki/Server_rack" class="mw-redirect" title="Server rack">server racks</a> at <a href="/wiki/Seneca_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Seneca College">Seneca College</a> (York Campus)</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Computer_Museum_of_America_(43).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Computer_Museum_of_America_%2843%29.jpg/220px-Computer_Museum_of_America_%2843%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Computer_Museum_of_America_%2843%29.jpg/330px-Computer_Museum_of_America_%2843%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Computer_Museum_of_America_%2843%29.jpg/440px-Computer_Museum_of_America_%2843%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4016" data-file-height="6016" /></a><figcaption>A Sun <a href="/wiki/Server_rack" class="mw-redirect" title="Server rack">server rack</a> at the Computer Museum of America in <a href="/wiki/Roswell,_Georgia" title="Roswell, Georgia">Roswell, Georgia</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>1987: Trancept Systems, a high-performance graphics hardware company<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1987: Sitka Corp, networking systems linking the Macintosh with IBM PCs<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1987: Centram Systems West, maker of <a href="/wiki/Networking_software" class="mw-redirect" title="Networking software">networking software</a> for PCs, Macs and Sun systems</li> <li>1988: Folio, Inc., developer of intelligent font scaling technology and the <a href="/wiki/F3_(font_format)" title="F3 (font format)">F3</a> font format<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1991: <a href="/wiki/Interactive_Systems_Corporation" title="Interactive Systems Corporation">Interactive Systems Corporation</a>'s Intel/Unix OS division, from <a href="/wiki/Eastman_Kodak_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastman Kodak Company">Eastman Kodak Company</a></li> <li>1992: Praxsys Technologies, Inc., developers of the Windows emulation technology that eventually became <a href="/wiki/Wabi_(software)" title="Wabi (software)">Wabi</a><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1994: <a href="/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporation" title="Thinking Machines Corporation">Thinking Machines Corporation</a> hardware division</li> <li>1996: <a href="/wiki/Lighthouse_Design" title="Lighthouse Design">Lighthouse Design</a>, Ltd.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1996: <a href="/wiki/Cray_Research" class="mw-redirect" title="Cray Research">Cray Business Systems Division</a>, from <a href="/wiki/Silicon_Graphics" title="Silicon Graphics">Silicon Graphics</a><sup id="cite_ref-Cray_BSD_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cray_BSD-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1996: Integrated Micro Products, specializing in <a href="/wiki/Fault_tolerant" class="mw-redirect" title="Fault tolerant">fault tolerant</a> servers</li> <li>1996: Thinking Machines Corporation software division</li> <li>February 1997: <a href="/wiki/LongView_Technologies" class="mw-redirect" title="LongView Technologies">LongView Technologies</a>, LLC<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>August 1997: Diba, technology supplier for the Information Appliance industry<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>September 1997: <a href="/wiki/Chorus_Syst%C3%A8mes_SA" title="Chorus Systèmes SA">Chorus Systèmes SA</a>, creators of <a href="/wiki/ChorusOS" title="ChorusOS">ChorusOS</a><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>November 1997: <a href="/wiki/Encore_Computer" title="Encore Computer">Encore Computer</a> Corporation's storage business<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1998: RedCape Software</li> <li>1998: i-Planet, a small software company that produced the "Pony Espresso" mobile email client—its name (sans hyphen) for the <a href="/wiki/IPlanet" title="IPlanet">Sun-Netscape software alliance</a></li> <li>June 1998: Dakota Scientific Software, Inc.—development tools for high-performance computing<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>July 1998: NetDynamics<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>—developers of the <a href="/wiki/NetDynamics_Application_Server" title="NetDynamics Application Server">NetDynamics Application Server</a><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>October 1998: Beduin,<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> small software company that produced the "Impact" small-footprint Java-based Web browser for mobile devices.</li> <li>1999: <a href="/wiki/Star_Division" title="Star Division">Star Division</a>, German software company and with it <a href="/wiki/StarOffice" title="StarOffice">StarOffice</a>, which was later released as open source under the name <a href="/wiki/OpenOffice.org" title="OpenOffice.org">OpenOffice.org</a></li> <li>1999: MAXSTRAT Corporation, a company in <a href="/wiki/Milpitas,_California" title="Milpitas, California">Milpitas, California</a> selling <a href="/wiki/Fibre_Channel" title="Fibre Channel">Fibre Channel</a> storage servers.</li> <li>October 1999: Forté Software, an enterprise software company specializing in integration solutions and developer of the <a href="/wiki/Forte_4GL" class="mw-redirect" title="Forte 4GL">Forte 4GL</a><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1999: <a href="/wiki/TeamWare" class="mw-redirect" title="TeamWare">TeamWare</a></li> <li>1999: <a href="/wiki/NetBeans" title="NetBeans">NetBeans</a>, produced a modular <a href="/wiki/Integrated_development_environment" title="Integrated development environment">IDE</a> written in Java, based on a student project at <a href="/wiki/Charles_University" title="Charles University">Charles University</a> in Prague</li> <li>March 2000: Innosoft International, Inc. a software company specializing in highly scalable MTAs (PMDF) and Directory Services.</li> <li>July 2000: <a href="/wiki/Sun_Grid_Engine#History" class="mw-redirect" title="Sun Grid Engine">Gridware</a>, a software company whose products managed the distribution of computing jobs across multiple computers<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>September 2000: <a href="/wiki/Cobalt_Networks" title="Cobalt Networks">Cobalt Networks</a>, an Internet appliance manufacturer for $2 billion<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>December 2000: HighGround, with a suite of Web-based management solutions<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2001: LSC, Inc., an Eagan, Minnesota company that developed Storage and Archive Management File System (SAM-FS) and Quick File System <a href="/wiki/QFS" title="QFS">QFS</a> file systems for backup and archive</li> <li>March 2001: InfraSearch, a peer-to-peer search company based in Burlingame.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>March 2002: Clustra Systems<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>June 2002: <a href="/wiki/Afara_Websystems" title="Afara Websystems">Afara Websystems</a>, developed SPARC processor–based technology<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>September 2002: Pirus Networks, intelligent storage services<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>November 2002: <a href="/wiki/Terraspring" class="mw-redirect" title="Terraspring">Terraspring</a>, infrastructure automation software<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>June 2003: <a href="/wiki/Pixo" title="Pixo">Pixo</a>, added to the Sun Content Delivery Server<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>August 2003: CenterRun, Inc.<sup id="cite_ref-acq-history_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-acq-history-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>December 2003: Waveset Technologies, identity management<sup id="cite_ref-waveset_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-waveset-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>January 2004 Nauticus Networks<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>February 2004: Kealia, founded by original Sun founder Andy Bechtolsheim, developed AMD-based 64-bit servers<sup id="cite_ref-AB-returns_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AB-returns-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>January 2005: SevenSpace, a multi-platform managed services provider<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>May 2005: <a href="/wiki/Tarantella,_Inc." title="Tarantella, Inc.">Tarantella, Inc.</a> (formerly known as <a href="/wiki/Santa_Cruz_Operation" title="Santa Cruz Operation">Santa Cruz Operation</a> (SCO)), for $25 million<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>June 2005: SeeBeyond, a <a href="/wiki/Service-Oriented_Architecture" class="mw-redirect" title="Service-Oriented Architecture">Service-Oriented Architecture</a> (SOA) software company for $387m<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>June 2005: <a href="/wiki/Procom_Technology" title="Procom Technology">Procom Technology</a>, Inc.'s NAS IP Assets<sup id="cite_ref-acq-history_52-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-acq-history-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>August 2005: <a href="/wiki/StorageTek" title="StorageTek">StorageTek</a>, data storage technology company for $4.1 billion<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>February 2006: Aduva, software for Solaris and Linux patch management<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>October 2006: Neogent<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>April 2007: <a href="/wiki/SavaJe" title="SavaJe">SavaJe</a>, the SavaJe OS, a Java OS for mobile phones</li> <li>September 2007: <a href="/wiki/Cluster_File_Systems" class="mw-redirect" title="Cluster File Systems">Cluster File Systems</a>, Inc.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>November 2007: Vaau, Enterprise Role Management and identity compliance solutions<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>February 2008: <a href="/wiki/MySQL_AB" title="MySQL AB">MySQL AB</a>, the company offering the open source database MySQL for $1 billion.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>February 2008: <a href="/wiki/Innotek_GmbH" class="mw-redirect" title="Innotek GmbH">Innotek GmbH</a>, developer of the <a href="/wiki/VirtualBox" title="VirtualBox">VirtualBox</a> virtualization product<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>April 2008: <a href="/wiki/Montalvo_Systems" title="Montalvo Systems">Montalvo Systems</a>, x86 microprocessor startup acquired before first silicon</li> <li>January 2009: Q-layer, a software company with cloud computing solutions<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Major_stockholders">Major stockholders</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Microsystems&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Major stockholders"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As of May 11, 2009, the following shareholders held over 100,000 <a href="/wiki/Common_stock" title="Common stock">common shares</a> of Sun<sup id="cite_ref-proxy_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-proxy-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and at $9.50 per share offered by Oracle,<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> they received the amounts indicated when the acquisition closed. </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Major investors in Sun </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Investor </th> <th>Common shares </th> <th>Value at merger </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Barclays_Global_Investors" class="mw-redirect" title="Barclays Global Investors">Barclays Global Investors</a></td> <td>37,606,708</td> <td>$357 million </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Scott_McNealy" title="Scott McNealy">Scott McNealy</a></td> <td>14,566,433</td> <td>$138 million </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Ken_Oshman" title="Ken Oshman">Ken Oshman</a></td> <td>584,985</td> <td>$5.5 million </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_I._Schwartz" title="Jonathan I. Schwartz">Jonathan I. Schwartz</a></td> <td>536,109</td> <td>$5 million </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/James_L._Barksdale" title="James L. Barksdale">James L. Barksdale</a></td> <td>231,785</td> <td>$2.2 million </td></tr> <tr> <td>Michael E. Lehman</td> <td>106,684</td> <td>$1 million </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hardware">Hardware</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Microsystems&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Hardware"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>For the first decade of Sun's history, the company positioned its products as technical <a href="/wiki/Workstations" class="mw-redirect" title="Workstations">workstations</a>, competing successfully as a low-cost vendor during the Workstation Wars of the 1980s. It then shifted its hardware product line to emphasize servers and storage. High-level telecom control systems such as <a href="/wiki/Operational_Support_Systems" class="mw-redirect" title="Operational Support Systems">Operational Support Systems</a> service predominantly used Sun equipment.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Motorola-based_systems">Motorola-based systems</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Microsystems&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Motorola-based systems"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sun originally used <a href="/wiki/Motorola_68000_family" class="mw-redirect" title="Motorola 68000 family">Motorola 68000 family</a> central processing units for the <a href="/wiki/Sun-1" title="Sun-1">Sun-1</a> through <a href="/wiki/Sun-3" title="Sun-3">Sun-3</a> computer series. The Sun-1 employed a 68000 CPU, the <a href="/wiki/Sun-2" title="Sun-2">Sun-2</a> series, a <a href="/wiki/Motorola_68010" title="Motorola 68010">68010</a>. The Sun-3 series was based on the <a href="/wiki/Motorola_68020" title="Motorola 68020">68020</a>, with the later Sun-3x using the <a href="/wiki/Motorola_68030" title="Motorola 68030">68030</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Sun-3x_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sun-3x-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="SPARC-based_systems">SPARC-based systems</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Microsystems&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: SPARC-based systems"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/SPARC" title="SPARC">SPARC</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SPARCstation_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/SPARCstation_1.jpg/220px-SPARCstation_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="244" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/SPARCstation_1.jpg/330px-SPARCstation_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/SPARCstation_1.jpg/440px-SPARCstation_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="448" data-file-height="496" /></a><figcaption>SPARCstation 1+</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1987, the company began using <i>SPARC</i>, a RISC processor architecture of its own design, in its computer systems, starting with the <a href="/wiki/Sun-4" title="Sun-4">Sun-4</a> line. SPARC was initially a <a href="/wiki/32-bit" class="mw-redirect" title="32-bit">32-bit</a> architecture (SPARC V7) until the introduction of the SPARC V9 architecture in 1995, which added <a href="/wiki/64-bit" class="mw-redirect" title="64-bit">64-bit</a> extensions. </p><p>Sun developed several generations of SPARC-based computer systems, including the <a href="/wiki/SPARCstation" title="SPARCstation">SPARCstation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sun_Ultra_series" class="mw-redirect" title="Sun Ultra series">Ultra</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sun_Blade_(workstation)" title="Sun Blade (workstation)">Sun Blade</a> series of workstations, and the SPARCserver, <a href="/wiki/Sun_Netra" title="Sun Netra">Netra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sun_Enterprise" title="Sun Enterprise">Enterprise</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sun_Fire" title="Sun Fire">Sun Fire</a> line of servers. </p><p>In the early 1990s the company began to extend its product line to include large-scale <a href="/wiki/Symmetric_multiprocessing" title="Symmetric multiprocessing">symmetric multiprocessing</a> servers, starting with the four-processor SPARCserver 600MP. This was followed by the 8-processor SPARCserver 1000 and 20-processor SPARCcenter 2000, which were based on work done in conjunction with <a href="/wiki/Xerox_PARC" class="mw-redirect" title="Xerox PARC">Xerox PARC</a>. In 1995 the company introduced <a href="/wiki/Sun_Ultra_series" class="mw-redirect" title="Sun Ultra series">Sun Ultra series</a> machines that were equipped with the first 64-bit implementation of SPARC processors (<a href="/wiki/UltraSPARC" title="UltraSPARC">UltraSPARC</a>). In the late 1990s the transformation of product line in favor of large 64-bit SMP systems was accelerated by the acquisition of Cray Business Systems Division from Silicon Graphics.<sup id="cite_ref-Cray_BSD_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cray_BSD-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Their 32-bit, 64-processor <a href="/wiki/Cray_CS6400" title="Cray CS6400">Cray Superserver 6400</a>, related to the SPARCcenter, led to the 64-bit <a href="/wiki/Sun_Enterprise_10000" class="mw-redirect" title="Sun Enterprise 10000">Sun Enterprise 10000</a> high-end server (otherwise known as <i>Starfire</i> or E10K). </p><p>In September 2004, Sun made available systems with <a href="/wiki/UltraSPARC_IV" title="UltraSPARC IV">UltraSPARC IV</a><sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which was the first multi-core SPARC processor. It was followed by UltraSPARC IV+ in September 2005<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and its revisions with higher clock speeds in 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These CPUs were used in the most powerful, enterprise class high-end <a href="/wiki/Non-Uniform_Memory_Access" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-Uniform Memory Access">CC-NUMA</a> servers developed by Sun, such as the Sun Fire E15K and the <a href="/wiki/Sun_Fire_E25K" class="mw-redirect" title="Sun Fire E25K">Sun Fire E25K</a>. </p><p>In November 2005, Sun launched the <a href="/wiki/UltraSPARC_T1" title="UltraSPARC T1">UltraSPARC T1</a>, notable for its ability to concurrently run 32 threads of execution on 8 processor cores. Its intent was to drive more efficient use of CPU resources, which is of particular importance in <a href="/wiki/Data_center" title="Data center">data centers</a>, where there is an increasing need to reduce power and air conditioning demands, much of which comes from the heat generated by CPUs. The T1 was followed in 2007 by the <a href="/wiki/UltraSPARC_T2" title="UltraSPARC T2">UltraSPARC T2</a>, which extended the number of threads per core from 4 to 8. Sun has open sourced the design specifications of both the T1 and T2 processors via the <a href="/wiki/OpenSPARC" title="OpenSPARC">OpenSPARC</a> project. </p><p>In 2006, Sun ventured into the <i><a href="/wiki/Blade_server" title="Blade server">blade server</a></i> (high density rack-mounted systems) market with the <a href="/wiki/Sun_Blade" title="Sun Blade">Sun Blade</a> (distinct from the Sun Blade workstation). </p><p>In April 2007, Sun released the SPARC Enterprise server products, jointly designed by Sun and Fujitsu and based on Fujitsu <a href="/wiki/SPARC64_VI" class="mw-redirect" title="SPARC64 VI">SPARC64 VI</a> and later processors. The <i>M-class</i> SPARC Enterprise systems include high-end reliability and availability features. Later T-series servers have also been badged SPARC Enterprise rather than Sun Fire. </p><p>In April 2008, Sun released servers with UltraSPARC T2 Plus, which is an SMP capable version of UltraSPARC T2, available in 2 or 4 processor configurations. It was the first CoolThreads CPU with multi-processor capability and it made possible to build standard rack-mounted servers that could simultaneously process up to massive 256 CPU threads in hardware (Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440),<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which is considered a record in the industry. </p><p>Since 2010, all further development of Sun machines based on SPARC architecture (including new <a href="/wiki/SPARC_T-Series" class="mw-redirect" title="SPARC T-Series">SPARC T-Series</a> servers, <a href="/wiki/SPARC_T3" title="SPARC T3">SPARC T3</a> and <a href="/wiki/SPARC_T4" title="SPARC T4">T4</a> chips) is done as a part of Oracle Corporation hardware division. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="x86-based_systems">x86-based systems</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Microsystems&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: x86-based systems"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the late 1980s, Sun also marketed an <a href="/wiki/Intel_80386" class="mw-redirect" title="Intel 80386">Intel 80386</a>–based machine, the <a href="/wiki/Sun386i" title="Sun386i">Sun386i</a>; this was designed to be a hybrid system, running <a href="/wiki/SunOS" title="SunOS">SunOS</a> but at the same time supporting <a href="/wiki/DOS" title="DOS">DOS</a> applications. This only remained on the market for a brief time. A follow-up "486i" upgrade was announced but only a few prototype units were ever manufactured.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sun's brief first foray into <a href="/wiki/X86" title="X86">x86</a> systems ended in the early 1990s, as it decided to concentrate on <a href="/wiki/SPARC" title="SPARC">SPARC</a> and retire the last <a href="/wiki/Motorola" title="Motorola">Motorola</a> systems and 386i products, a move dubbed by McNealy as "all the wood behind one arrowhead". Even so, Sun kept its hand in the <a href="/wiki/X86" title="X86">x86</a> world, as a release of <a href="/wiki/Solaris_(operating_system)" class="mw-redirect" title="Solaris (operating system)">Solaris</a> for <a href="/wiki/PC_compatible" class="mw-redirect" title="PC compatible">PC compatibles</a> began shipping in 1993. </p><p>In 1997, Sun acquired Diba, Inc., followed later by the acquisition of <a href="/wiki/Cobalt_Networks" title="Cobalt Networks">Cobalt Networks</a> in 2000, with the aim of building <i>network appliances</i> (single function computers meant for consumers). Sun also marketed a <a href="/wiki/Network_Computer" title="Network Computer">Network Computer</a> (a term popularized and eventually trademarked by <a href="/wiki/Oracle_Corporation" title="Oracle Corporation">Oracle</a>); the <a href="/wiki/JavaStation" title="JavaStation">JavaStation</a> was a diskless system designed to run Java applications. </p><p>Although none of these business initiatives were particularly successful, the Cobalt purchase gave Sun a toehold for its return to the x86 hardware market. In 2002, Sun introduced its first general purpose x86 system, the LX50, based in part on previous Cobalt system expertise. This was also Sun's first system announced to support <a href="/wiki/Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a> as well as Solaris. </p><p>In 2003, Sun announced a strategic alliance with <a href="/wiki/AMD" title="AMD">AMD</a> to produce x86/x64 servers based on AMD's <a href="/wiki/Opteron" title="Opteron">Opteron</a> processor; this was followed shortly by Sun's acquisition of Kealia, a startup founded by original Sun founder <a href="/wiki/Andy_Bechtolsheim" title="Andy Bechtolsheim">Andy Bechtolsheim</a>, which had been focusing on high-performance AMD-based servers. </p><p>The following year, Sun launched the Opteron-based Sun Fire V20z and V40z servers, and the <a href="/wiki/Sun_Java_Workstation" title="Sun Java Workstation">Sun Java Workstation</a> W1100z and W2100z workstations. </p><p>In September 2005 Sun unveiled a new range of Opteron-based servers: the Sun Fire X2100, X4100 and X4200 servers.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These were designed from scratch by a team led by Bechtolsheim to address heat and power consumption issues commonly faced in data centers. In July 2006, the <a href="/wiki/Sun_Fire_X4500" title="Sun Fire X4500">Sun Fire X4500</a> and X4600 systems were introduced, extending a line of x64 systems that support not only Solaris, but also <a href="/wiki/Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a> and <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Microsoft Windows</a>. </p><p>In January 2007 Sun announced a broad strategic alliance with <a href="/wiki/Intel" title="Intel">Intel</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Intel endorsed Solaris as a mainstream operating system and as its mission critical <a href="/wiki/Unix" title="Unix">Unix</a> for its <a href="/wiki/Xeon" title="Xeon">Xeon</a> processor–based systems, and contributed engineering resources to <a href="/wiki/OpenSolaris" title="OpenSolaris">OpenSolaris</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sun began using the Intel Xeon processor in its <a href="/wiki/X64" class="mw-redirect" title="X64">x64</a> server line, starting with the Sun Blade X6250 server module introduced in June 2007. </p><p>In May 2008 AMD announced its Operating System Research Center (OSRC) was expanding its focus to include optimization to Sun's OpenSolaris and <a href="/wiki/Sun_xVM" title="Sun xVM">xVM</a> virtualization products for AMD processors.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Software">Software</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Microsystems&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Software"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1062633282">@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .content .thumb>div:not(.thumbinner){display:flex;justify-content:center;flex-wrap:wrap;align-content:flex-start;flex-direction:column}}body.skin-vector .mw-parser-output div.thumb>div:not(.thumbinner){font-size:94%;text-align:center;overflow:hidden;min-width:100px}body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output div.thumb>div:not(.thumbinner){margin:0 auto;max-width:100%!important}</style> <div class="thumb tright"> <div style="display:table;"> <span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:SunSoft_logo.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Logo of SunSoft, the company's dedicated software division, established in 1991"><img alt="Logo of SunSoft, the company's dedicated software division, established in 1991" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/SunSoft_logo.svg/220px-SunSoft_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="76" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/SunSoft_logo.svg/330px-SunSoft_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/SunSoft_logo.svg/440px-SunSoft_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="2005" data-file-height="690" /></a></span><div class="thumbcaption" style="display:table-caption;caption-side:bottom;box-sizing:border-box;">Logo of SunSoft, the company's dedicated software division, established in 1991 </div> </div> </div> <p>Although Sun was initially known as a hardware company, its software history began with its founding in 1982; co-founder Bill Joy was one of the leading Unix developers of the time, having contributed the <a href="/wiki/Vi_(text_editor)" title="Vi (text editor)">vi</a> editor, the <a href="/wiki/C_shell" title="C shell">C shell</a>, and significant work developing <a href="/wiki/TCP/IP" class="mw-redirect" title="TCP/IP">TCP/IP</a> and the <a href="/wiki/BSD_Unix" class="mw-redirect" title="BSD Unix">BSD Unix</a> OS. Sun later developed software such as the <a href="/wiki/Java_programming_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Java programming language">Java programming language</a> and acquired software such as <a href="/wiki/StarOffice" title="StarOffice">StarOffice</a>, <a href="/wiki/VirtualBox" title="VirtualBox">VirtualBox</a> and <a href="/wiki/MySQL" title="MySQL">MySQL</a>. In February 1991, the company established SunSoft, Inc., a wholly owned division of Sun dedicated to the development of operating systems and application software.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sun used community-based and open-source licensing of its major technologies, and for its support of its products with other open source technologies. <a href="/wiki/GNOME" title="GNOME">GNOME</a>-based desktop software called <a href="/wiki/Java_Desktop_System" title="Java Desktop System">Java Desktop System</a> (originally code-named "Madhatter") was distributed for the Solaris operating system, and at one point for Linux. Sun supported its <a href="/wiki/Java_Enterprise_System" class="mw-redirect" title="Java Enterprise System">Java Enterprise System</a> (a <a href="/wiki/Middleware_(distributed_applications)" title="Middleware (distributed applications)">middleware</a> stack) on Linux. It released the source code for Solaris under the <a href="/wiki/Open-source_license" title="Open-source license">open-source</a> <a href="/wiki/Common_Development_and_Distribution_License" title="Common Development and Distribution License">Common Development and Distribution License</a>, via the OpenSolaris community. Sun's positioning includes a commitment to indemnify users of some software from intellectual property disputes concerning that software. It offers support services on a variety of pricing bases, including per-employee and per-socket. </p><p>A 2006 report prepared for the EU by <a href="/wiki/UNU-MERIT" title="UNU-MERIT">UNU-MERIT</a> stated that Sun was the largest corporate contributor to open source movements in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-MERIT-floss_82-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MERIT-floss-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to this report, Sun's open source contributions exceed the combined total of the next five largest commercial contributors. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Operating_systems">Operating systems</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Microsystems&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Operating systems"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Solaris_(operating_system)" class="mw-redirect" title="Solaris (operating system)">Solaris (operating system)</a></div> <p>Sun is best known for its Unix systems, which have a reputation for system stability and a consistent design philosophy.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Sun's first workstation shipped with <a href="/wiki/UniSoft" title="UniSoft">UniSoft</a> <a href="/wiki/Version_7_Unix" title="Version 7 Unix">V7 Unix</a>. Later in 1982 Sun began providing <a href="/wiki/SunOS" title="SunOS">SunOS</a>, a customized 4.2BSD Unix, as the operating system for its workstations. SunOS included <a href="/wiki/Suntools" class="mw-redirect" title="Suntools">suntools</a>, an early <a href="/wiki/GUI" class="mw-redirect" title="GUI">GUI</a> <a href="/wiki/Window_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Window system">window system</a>. </p><p>In the late 1980s, AT&T tapped Sun to help them develop the next release of their branded UNIX, and in 1988 announced they would purchase up to a 20% stake in Sun.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> UNIX <a href="/wiki/System_V_Release_4" class="mw-redirect" title="System V Release 4">System V Release 4</a> (SVR4) was jointly developed by AT&T and Sun.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sun used SVR4 as the foundation for Solaris 2.x, which became the successor to SunOS 4.1.x (later retroactively named Solaris 1.x). By the mid-1990s, the ensuing <a href="/wiki/Unix_wars" title="Unix wars">Unix wars</a> had largely subsided, AT&T had sold off their Unix interests, and the relationship between the two companies was significantly reduced. </p><p>In the early 1990s, <a href="/wiki/Brian_P._Dougherty" title="Brian P. Dougherty">Brian P. Dougherty</a>, founder of <a href="/wiki/Berkeley_Softworks" title="Berkeley Softworks">Berkeley Softworks</a> (which would go on to be re-incorporated as the <i>GeoWorks Corporation</i>) accused the Java development team at Sun for studying GeoWorks's <a href="/wiki/GEOS_(16-bit_operating_system)" title="GEOS (16-bit operating system)">PC/GEOS</a> operating system and incorporating features of PC/GEOS into their Unix-based operating system. Brian claimed that the object-oriented and flexible UI of PC/GEOS was "to this day the most sophisticated UI technology ever built into an OS".<sup id="cite_ref-Microworks_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Microworks-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From 1992 Sun also sold <a href="/wiki/Interactive_Unix" class="mw-redirect" title="Interactive Unix">Interactive Unix</a>, an operating system it acquired when it bought Interactive Systems Corporation from Eastman Kodak Company. This was a popular Unix variant for the PC platform and a major competitor to market leader <a href="/wiki/SCO_UNIX" class="mw-redirect" title="SCO UNIX">SCO UNIX</a>. Sun's focus on Interactive Unix diminished in favor of Solaris on both SPARC and x86 systems; it was dropped as a product in 2001.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2007)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Sun dropped the Solaris 2.x version numbering scheme after the Solaris 2.6 release (1997); the following version was branded Solaris 7. This was the first 64-bit release, intended for the new <a href="/wiki/UltraSPARC" title="UltraSPARC">UltraSPARC</a> CPUs based on the SPARC V9 architecture. Within the next four years, the successors Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 were released in 2000 and 2002 respectively. </p><p>Following several years of difficult competition and loss of server market share to competitors' Linux-based systems, Sun began to include Linux as part of its strategy in 2002. Sun supported both <a href="/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux" title="Red Hat Enterprise Linux">Red Hat Enterprise Linux</a> and <a href="/wiki/SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Server" class="mw-redirect" title="SUSE Linux Enterprise Server">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server</a> on its x64 systems; companies such as <a href="/wiki/Canonical_Ltd." class="mw-redirect" title="Canonical Ltd.">Canonical Ltd.</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wind_River_Systems" title="Wind River Systems">Wind River Systems</a> and <a href="/wiki/MontaVista" title="MontaVista">MontaVista</a> also supported their versions of Linux on Sun's SPARC-based systems. </p><p>In 2004, after having cultivated a reputation as one of <a href="/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a>'s most vocal antagonists, Sun entered into a joint relationship with them, resolving various legal entanglements between the two companies and receiving US$1.95 billion in settlement payments from them.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sun supported Microsoft Windows on its x64 systems, and announced other collaborative agreements with Microsoft, including plans to support each other's virtualization environments.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2005, the company released Solaris 10. The new version included a large number of enhancements to the operating system, as well as very novel features, previously unseen in the industry. Solaris 10 update releases continued through the next 8 years, the last release from Sun Microsystems being Solaris 10 10/09. The following updates were released by Oracle under the new license agreement; the final release is Solaris 10 1/13.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Previously, Sun offered a separate variant of Solaris called <a href="/wiki/Trusted_Solaris" title="Trusted Solaris">Trusted Solaris</a>, which included augmented security features such as <a href="/wiki/Multilevel_security" title="Multilevel security">multilevel security</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Least_privilege" class="mw-redirect" title="Least privilege">least privilege</a> access model. Solaris 10 included many of the same capabilities as Trusted Solaris at the time of its initial release; Solaris 10 11/06 included Solaris Trusted Extensions, which give it the remaining capabilities needed to make it the functional successor to Trusted Solaris. </p><p>After the release of Solaris 10, the Solaris source code was opened under the <a href="/wiki/Common_Development_and_Distribution_License" title="Common Development and Distribution License">CDDL</a> <a href="/wiki/Free_software" title="Free software">free software</a> license and developed in open with contributing <a href="/wiki/OpenSolaris#History" title="OpenSolaris">Opensolaris community</a> through <a href="/wiki/Solaris_(operating_system)#Development_release" class="mw-redirect" title="Solaris (operating system)">SXCE</a> that used <a href="/wiki/UNIX_System_V#SVR4" title="UNIX System V">SVR4</a> <a href="/wiki/.pkg" title=".pkg">.pkg</a> packaging and supported <a href="/wiki/OpenSolaris" title="OpenSolaris">OpenSolaris</a> releases that used <a href="/wiki/Image_Packaging_System" title="Image Packaging System">IPS</a>. Following the acquisition of Sun by Oracle, OpenSolaris continued to develop in open under <a href="/wiki/Illumos" title="Illumos">illumos</a> with <a href="/wiki/Illumos#Distributions" title="Illumos">illumos distributions</a>. </p><p>Oracle Corporation continued to develop Solaris, reverting new development back to the <a href="/wiki/Proprietary_software" title="Proprietary software">proprietary</a> licensing; its next release was <a href="/w/index.php?title=Oracle_Solaris_11&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Oracle Solaris 11 (page does not exist)">Oracle Solaris 11</a> in November 2011. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Java_platform">Java platform</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Microsystems&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Java platform"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Java_platform" class="mw-redirect" title="Java platform">Java platform</a></div> <p>The Java platform was developed at Sun by <a href="/wiki/James_Gosling" title="James Gosling">James Gosling</a> in the early 1990s with the objective of allowing programs to function regardless of the device they were used on, sparking the slogan "<a href="/wiki/Write_once,_run_anywhere" title="Write once, run anywhere">Write once, run anywhere</a>" (WORA). While this objective was not entirely achieved (prompting the riposte "Write once, debug everywhere"), Java is regarded as being largely hardware—and operating system—independent. </p><p>Java was initially promoted as a platform for client-side <a href="/wiki/Java_applet" title="Java applet"><i>applets</i></a> running inside web browsers. Early examples of Java applications were the <a href="/wiki/HotJava" title="HotJava">HotJava</a> <a href="/wiki/Web_browser" title="Web browser">web browser</a> and the <a href="/wiki/HotJava_Views" title="HotJava Views">HotJava Views</a> suite. However, since then Java has been more successful on the <a href="/wiki/Server-side" class="mw-redirect" title="Server-side">server side</a> of the Internet. </p><p>The platform consists of three major parts: the Java programming language, the <a href="/wiki/Java_virtual_machine" title="Java virtual machine">Java Virtual Machine</a> (JVM), and several <a href="/wiki/Java_API" class="mw-redirect" title="Java API">Java Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)</a>. The design of the Java platform is controlled by the vendor and user community through the <a href="/wiki/Java_Community_Process" title="Java Community Process">Java Community Process</a> (JCP). </p><p>Java is an <a href="/wiki/Object-oriented_programming" title="Object-oriented programming">object-oriented programming</a> language. Since its introduction in late 1995, it became one of the world's most popular programming languages.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Java programs are compiled to <a href="/wiki/Byte_code" class="mw-redirect" title="Byte code">byte code</a>, which can be executed by any JVM, regardless of the environment. </p><p>The Java <a href="/wiki/Application_programming_interface" class="mw-redirect" title="Application programming interface">APIs</a> provide an extensive set of library routines. These APIs evolved into the <a href="/wiki/Java_SE" class="mw-redirect" title="Java SE"><i>Standard Edition</i> (Java SE)</a>, which provides basic infrastructure and GUI functionality; the <a href="/wiki/Java_EE" class="mw-redirect" title="Java EE"><i>Enterprise Edition</i> (Java EE)</a>, aimed at large software companies implementing enterprise-class application servers; and the <a href="/wiki/Java_ME" class="mw-redirect" title="Java ME"><i>Micro Edition</i> (Java ME)</a>, used to build software for devices with limited resources, such as mobile devices. </p><p>On November 13, 2006, Sun announced it would be licensing its Java implementation under the <a href="/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License" title="GNU General Public License">GNU General Public License</a>; it released its <a href="/wiki/Java_compiler" title="Java compiler">Java compiler</a> and JVM at that time.<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In February 2009, Sun entered a battle with Microsoft and Adobe Systems, which promoted rival platforms to build software applications for the Internet.<sup id="cite_ref-Brandon_91-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brandon-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/JavaFX" title="JavaFX">JavaFX</a> was a development platform for music, video and other applications that builds on the Java programming language.<sup id="cite_ref-Brandon_91-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brandon-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Office_suite">Office suite</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Microsystems&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Office suite"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1999, Sun acquired the German software company Star Division and with it the <a href="/wiki/Office_suite" class="mw-redirect" title="Office suite">office suite</a> <a href="/wiki/StarOffice" title="StarOffice">StarOffice</a>, which Sun later released as <a href="/wiki/OpenOffice.org" title="OpenOffice.org">OpenOffice.org</a> under both <a href="/wiki/GNU_LGPL" class="mw-redirect" title="GNU LGPL">GNU LGPL</a> and the SISSL (<a href="/wiki/Sun_Industry_Standards_Source_License" title="Sun Industry Standards Source License">Sun Industry Standards Source License</a>). OpenOffice.org supported <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Office" title="Microsoft Office">Microsoft Office</a> file formats (though not perfectly), was available on many platforms (primarily Linux, Microsoft Windows, <a href="/wiki/Mac_OS_X" class="mw-redirect" title="Mac OS X">Mac OS X</a>, and Solaris) and was used in the <a href="/wiki/Open_source_community" class="mw-redirect" title="Open source community">open source community</a>. </p><p>The principal differences between StarOffice and OpenOffice.org were that StarOffice was supported by Sun, was available as either a single-user retail box kit or as per-user blocks of licensing for the enterprise, and included a wider range of fonts and document templates and a commercial quality spellchecker.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> StarOffice also contained commercially licensed functions and add-ons; in OpenOffice.org these were either replaced by open-source or free variants, or are not present at all. Both packages had native support for the <a href="/wiki/OpenDocument" title="OpenDocument">OpenDocument</a> format. </p><p>Derivatives of OpenOffice.org continue to be developed, these are <a href="/wiki/LibreOffice" title="LibreOffice">LibreOffice</a>, <a href="/wiki/Collabora_Online" title="Collabora Online">Collabora Online</a> and <a href="/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice" title="Apache OpenOffice">Apache OpenOffice</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Virtualization_and_datacenter_automation_software">Virtualization and datacenter automation software</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Microsystems&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Virtualization and datacenter automation software"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:VirtualBox2.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/VirtualBox2.png/300px-VirtualBox2.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="225" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/VirtualBox2.png/450px-VirtualBox2.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/VirtualBox2.png/600px-VirtualBox2.png 2x" data-file-width="1152" data-file-height="864" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/VirtualBox" title="VirtualBox">VirtualBox</a>, purchased by Sun</figcaption></figure> <p>In 2007, Sun announced the Sun xVM virtualization and datacenter automation product suite for commodity hardware. Sun also acquired VirtualBox in 2008. Earlier virtualization technologies from Sun like <i>Dynamic System Domains</i> and <i>Dynamic Reconfiguration</i> were specifically designed for high-end SPARC servers, and <a href="/wiki/Logical_Domains" class="mw-redirect" title="Logical Domains">Logical Domains</a> only supports the UltraSPARC T1/T2/T2 Plus server platforms. Sun marketed <i><a href="/wiki/Sun_Ops_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Sun Ops Center">Sun Ops Center</a></i> provisioning software for datacenter automation. </p><p>On the client side, Sun offered <a href="/wiki/Virtual_desktop" title="Virtual desktop">virtual desktop</a> solutions. Desktop environments and applications could be hosted in a datacenter, with users accessing these environments from a wide range of client devices, including Microsoft Windows PCs, <a href="/wiki/Sun_Ray" title="Sun Ray">Sun Ray virtual display clients</a>, <a href="/wiki/Apple_Inc." title="Apple Inc.">Apple</a> Macintoshes, PDAs or any combination of supported devices. A variety of networks were supported, from LAN to WAN or the public Internet. Virtual desktop products included <a href="/wiki/Sun_Ray_Server_Software" class="mw-redirect" title="Sun Ray Server Software">Sun Ray Server Software</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sun_Secure_Global_Desktop" class="mw-redirect" title="Sun Secure Global Desktop">Sun Secure Global Desktop</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Virtual_Desktop_Infrastructure&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (page does not exist)">Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Database_management_systems">Database management systems</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Microsystems&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Database management systems"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sun acquired MySQL AB, the developer of the <a href="/wiki/MySQL" title="MySQL">MySQL</a> database in 2008 for US$1 billion.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> CEO <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_I._Schwartz" title="Jonathan I. Schwartz">Jonathan Schwartz</a> mentioned in his blog that optimizing the performance of MySQL was one of the priorities of the acquisition.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In February 2008, Sun began to publish results of the MySQL performance optimization work.<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sun contributed to the <a href="/wiki/PostgreSQL" title="PostgreSQL">PostgreSQL</a> project. On the Java platform, Sun contributed to and supported <a href="/wiki/Java_DB" class="mw-redirect" title="Java DB">Java DB</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_software">Other software</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Microsystems&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Other software"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sun offered other software products for software development and infrastructure services. Many were developed in house; others came from acquisitions, including Tarantella, Waveset Technologies,<sup id="cite_ref-waveset_53-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-waveset-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> SeeBeyond, and Vaau. Sun acquired many of the <a href="/wiki/Netscape" title="Netscape">Netscape</a> non-browser software products as part a deal involving Netscape's merger with <a href="/wiki/AOL" title="AOL">AOL</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These software products were initially offered under the "iPlanet" brand; once the Sun-Netscape alliance ended, they were re-branded as "<a href="/wiki/Sun_ONE" class="mw-redirect" title="Sun ONE">Sun ONE</a>" (Sun Open Network Environment), and then the "<a href="/wiki/Sun_Java_System" title="Sun Java System">Sun Java System</a>". </p><p>Sun's middleware product was branded as the <i>Java Enterprise System</i> (or JES), and marketed for web and application serving, communication, calendaring, directory, identity management and <a href="/wiki/Service-oriented_architecture" title="Service-oriented architecture">service-oriented architecture</a>. Sun's <a href="/wiki/Open_ESB" class="mw-redirect" title="Open ESB">Open ESB</a> and other software suites were available free of charge on systems running Solaris, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, <a href="/wiki/HP-UX" title="HP-UX">HP-UX</a>, and Windows, with support available optionally. </p><p>Sun developed data center management software products, which included the <i><a href="/wiki/Solaris_Cluster" title="Solaris Cluster">Solaris Cluster</a></i> high availability software, and a grid management package called <i><a href="/wiki/Sun_Grid_Engine" class="mw-redirect" title="Sun Grid Engine">Sun Grid Engine</a></i> and firewall software such as SunScreen. For <a href="/wiki/Network_Equipment_Provider" class="mw-redirect" title="Network Equipment Provider">Network Equipment Providers</a> and telecommunications customers, Sun developed the Sun Netra High-Availability Suite. </p><p>Sun produced compilers and development tools under the <i><a href="/wiki/Sun_Studio_(software)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sun Studio (software)">Sun Studio</a></i> brand, for building and developing Solaris and Linux applications. Sun entered the <a href="/wiki/Software_as_a_service" title="Software as a service">software as a service</a> (SaaS) market with <a href="/wiki/Zembly" title="Zembly">zembly</a>, a social cloud-based <a href="/wiki/Computing_platform" title="Computing platform">computing platform</a> and Project Kenai, an open-source project hosting service. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Storage">Storage</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Microsystems&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Storage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sun sold its own storage systems to complement its system offerings; it has also made several storage-related acquisitions. On June 2, 2005, Sun announced it would purchase <a href="/wiki/Storage_Technology_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Storage Technology Corporation">Storage Technology Corporation</a> (StorageTek) for US$4.1 billion in cash, or $37.00 per share, a deal completed in August 2005. </p><p>In 2006, Sun introduced the <a href="/wiki/Sun_StorageTek_5800_System" title="Sun StorageTek 5800 System">Sun StorageTek 5800 System</a>, the first application-aware programmable storage solution. In 2008, Sun contributed the source code of the StorageTek 5800 System under the BSD license.<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sun announced the <a href="/wiki/Sun_Open_Storage" title="Sun Open Storage">Sun Open Storage</a> platform in 2008 built with open source technologies. In late 2008 Sun announced the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage systems (codenamed Amber Road). Transparent placement of data in the systems' <a href="/wiki/Solid-state_drive" title="Solid-state drive">solid-state drives</a> (SSD) and conventional hard drives was managed by <a href="/wiki/ZFS" title="ZFS">ZFS</a> to take advantage of the speed of SSDs and the economy of conventional hard disks.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Other storage products included Sun Fire X4500 storage server and SAM-QFS filesystem and storage management software. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="High-performance_computing">High-performance computing</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Microsystems&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: High-performance computing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sun marketed the <a href="/wiki/Sun_Constellation_System" title="Sun Constellation System">Sun Constellation System</a> for <a href="/wiki/High-performance_computing" title="High-performance computing">high-performance computing</a> (HPC). Even before the introduction of the Sun Constellation System in 2007, Sun's products were in use in many of the <a href="/wiki/TOP500" title="TOP500">TOP500</a> systems and supercomputing centers: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lustre_(file_system)" title="Lustre (file system)">Lustre</a> was used by seven of the top 10 supercomputers in 2008, as well as other industries that need high-performance storage: six major oil companies (including <a href="/wiki/BP" title="BP">BP</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shell_plc" title="Shell plc">Shell</a>, and <a href="/wiki/ExxonMobil" title="ExxonMobil">ExxonMobil</a>), chip-design (including <a href="/wiki/Synopsys" title="Synopsys">Synopsys</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sony" title="Sony">Sony</a>), and the movie-industry (including <a href="/wiki/Harry_Potter_film_series" class="mw-redirect" title="Harry Potter film series">Harry Potter</a> and <a href="/wiki/Spider-Man" title="Spider-Man">Spider-Man</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Sun Fire X4500 was used by high-energy physics supercomputers to run dCache</li> <li>Sun Grid Engine was a popular workload scheduler for clusters and computer farms</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sun_Visualization_System" title="Sun Visualization System">Sun Visualization System</a> allowed users of the <a href="/wiki/TeraGrid" title="TeraGrid">TeraGrid</a> to remotely access the 3D rendering capabilities of the <i>Maverick</i> system at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Texas_at_Austin" title="University of Texas at Austin">University of Texas at Austin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sun_Modular_Datacenter" title="Sun Modular Datacenter">Sun Modular Datacenter</a> (Project Blackbox) was two Sun MD S20 units used by the <a href="/wiki/Stanford_Linear_Accelerator_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Stanford Linear Accelerator Center">Stanford Linear Accelerator Center</a></li></ul> <p>The <i>Sun HPC ClusterTools</i> product was a set of <a href="/wiki/Message_Passing_Interface" title="Message Passing Interface">Message Passing Interface</a> (MPI) libraries and tools for running parallel jobs on Solaris HPC clusters. Beginning with version 7.0, Sun switched from its own implementation of MPI to <a href="/wiki/Open_MPI" title="Open MPI">Open MPI</a>, and donated engineering resources to the Open MPI project. </p><p>Sun was a participant in the <a href="/wiki/OpenMP" title="OpenMP">OpenMP</a> language committee. Sun Studio compilers and tools implemented the OpenMP specification for shared memory parallelization. </p><p>In 2006, Sun built the <a href="/wiki/Tsubame_(supercomputer)" title="Tsubame (supercomputer)"><i>TSUBAME supercomputer</i></a>, which was until June 2008 the fastest supercomputer in Asia. Sun built <i>Ranger</i> at the <a href="/wiki/Texas_Advanced_Computing_Center" title="Texas Advanced Computing Center">Texas Advanced Computing Center</a> (TACC) in 2007. Ranger had a peak performance of over 500 TFLOPS, and was the sixth-most-powerful supercomputer on the TOP500 list in November 2008. Sun announced an OpenSolaris distribution that integrated Sun's HPC products with others.<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Staff">Staff</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Microsystems&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Staff"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Sun_Microsystems_employees" title="List of Sun Microsystems employees">List of Sun Microsystems employees</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sun_Microsystems_campus,_Santa_Clara,_with_fountain.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Sun_Microsystems_campus%2C_Santa_Clara%2C_with_fountain.jpg/220px-Sun_Microsystems_campus%2C_Santa_Clara%2C_with_fountain.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Sun_Microsystems_campus%2C_Santa_Clara%2C_with_fountain.jpg/330px-Sun_Microsystems_campus%2C_Santa_Clara%2C_with_fountain.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Sun_Microsystems_campus%2C_Santa_Clara%2C_with_fountain.jpg/440px-Sun_Microsystems_campus%2C_Santa_Clara%2C_with_fountain.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="681" /></a><figcaption>A fountain within the Sun main campus in Santa Clara</figcaption></figure> <p>Notable Sun employees included <a href="/wiki/John_Gilmore_(activist)" title="John Gilmore (activist)">John Gilmore</a>, <a href="/wiki/Whitfield_Diffie" title="Whitfield Diffie">Whitfield Diffie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Radia_Perlman" title="Radia Perlman">Radia Perlman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ivan_Sutherland" title="Ivan Sutherland">Ivan Sutherland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marc_Tremblay" title="Marc Tremblay">Marc Tremblay</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Satya_Nadella" title="Satya Nadella">Satya Nadella</a>. Sun was an early advocate of Unix-based networked computing, promoting TCP/IP and especially NFS, as reflected in the company's motto <a href="/wiki/The_Network_is_the_Computer" title="The Network is the Computer">The Network is the Computer</a>, coined by <a href="/wiki/John_Gage" title="John Gage">John Gage</a>. <a href="/wiki/James_Gosling" title="James Gosling">James Gosling</a> led the team which developed the <a href="/wiki/Java_(programming_language)" title="Java (programming language)">Java programming language</a>. <a href="/wiki/Jon_Bosak" title="Jon Bosak">Jon Bosak</a> led the creation of the <a href="/wiki/XML" title="XML">XML</a> specification at <a href="/wiki/W3C" class="mw-redirect" title="W3C">W3C</a>. </p><p>In 2005, Sun Microsystems was one of the first <a href="/wiki/Fortune_500" title="Fortune 500">Fortune 500</a> companies that instituted a formal <a href="/wiki/Social_media" title="Social media">social media</a> program.<sup id="cite_ref-Barker_(2008)_101-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Barker_(2008)-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sun staff published articles on the company's blog site.<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Staff were encouraged to use the site to blog on any aspect of their work or personal life, with few restrictions placed on staff, other than commercially confidential material. Jonathan I. Schwartz was one of the first CEOs of large companies to regularly blog; his postings were frequently quoted and analyzed in the press.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Acquisition_by_Oracle">Acquisition by Oracle</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Microsystems&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Acquisition by Oracle"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Acquisition_of_Sun_Microsystems_by_Oracle_Corporation" title="Acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation">Acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Oracle_Sun_logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Oracle_Sun_logo.svg/220px-Oracle_Sun_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="134" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Oracle_Sun_logo.svg/330px-Oracle_Sun_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Oracle_Sun_logo.svg/440px-Oracle_Sun_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="972" data-file-height="594" /></a><figcaption>Logo used on hardware products by Oracle</figcaption></figure> <p>On September 3, 2009, the European Commission opened an in-depth investigation into the proposed takeover of Sun Microsystems by Oracle.<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On November 9, 2009, the Commission issued a statement of objections relating to the acquisition of Sun by Oracle.<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Finally, on January 21, 2010, the European Commission approved Oracle's acquisition of Sun. The Commission's investigation showed that another open database, PostgreSQL, was considered by many users of this type of software as a credible alternative to MySQL and could to some extent replace the competitive strength that the latter currently represents in the database market.<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sun was sold to Oracle Corporation in 2009 for $5.6 billion.<sup id="cite_ref-proxy_68-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-proxy-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sun's staff were asked to share anecdotes about their experiences at Sun. A website containing videos, stories, and photographs from 27 years at Sun was made available on September 2, 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In October, Sun announced a second round of thousands of employees to be laid off, blamed partially on delays in approval of the merger.<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The transaction was completed in early 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-completion_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-completion-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In January 2011, Oracle agreed to pay $46 million to settle charges that it submitted false claims to US federal government agencies and paid "kickbacks" to systems integrators.<sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In February 2011, Sun's former <a href="/wiki/Menlo_Park,_California" title="Menlo Park, California">Menlo Park, California</a>, campus of about 1,000,000 square feet (93,000 m<sup>2</sup>) was sold, and it was announced that it would become headquarters for <a href="/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The sprawling facility built around an enclosed courtyard had been nicknamed "Sun Quentin". The campus is now the headquarters of Facebook's parent company <a href="/wiki/Meta_Platforms" title="Meta Platforms">Meta Platforms</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On September 1, 2011, Sun India legally became part of Oracle. It had been delayed due to legal issues in Indian court.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. 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href="/wiki/Ultra_60" title="Ultra 60">60</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ultra_80" title="Ultra 80">80</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sun_Enterprise" title="Sun Enterprise">Enterprise</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sun_Enterprise_10000" class="mw-redirect" title="Sun Enterprise 10000">10000</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sun_Blade" title="Sun Blade">Blade server</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sun_Blade_(workstation)" title="Sun Blade (workstation)">Blade workstation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sun_Fire" title="Sun Fire">Fire</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sun_Fire_12K" class="mw-redirect" title="Sun Fire 12K">12K</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sun_Fire_15K" title="Sun Fire 15K">15K</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sun_Fire_E25K" class="mw-redirect" title="Sun Fire E25K">E25K</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sun_Fire_T2000" title="Sun Fire T2000">T2000</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sun_Fire_X4500" title="Sun Fire X4500">X4500</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SPARC_Enterprise" title="SPARC Enterprise">SPARC Enterprise</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/JavaStation" title="JavaStation">JavaStation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sun_Java_Workstation" title="Sun Java Workstation">Java Workstation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sun_Ray" title="Sun Ray">Ray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cobalt_Qube" title="Cobalt Qube">Cobalt Qube</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cobalt_RaQ" title="Cobalt RaQ">Cobalt RaQ</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Processors</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/SPARC" title="SPARC">SPARC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MB86900" title="MB86900">MB86900</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MicroSPARC" title="MicroSPARC">microSPARC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SuperSPARC" title="SuperSPARC">SuperSPARC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UltraSPARC" title="UltraSPARC">UltraSPARC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UltraSPARC_II" title="UltraSPARC II">UltraSPARC II</a> <ul><li>UltraSPARC IIe</li> <li>UltraSPARC IIi</li> <li>Gemini</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UltraSPARC_III" title="UltraSPARC III">UltraSPARC III</a> <ul><li>UltraSPARC III Cu</li> <li>UltraSPARC IIIi</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UltraSPARC_IV" title="UltraSPARC IV">UltraSPARC IV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UltraSPARC_T1" title="UltraSPARC T1">UltraSPARC T1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UltraSPARC_T2" title="UltraSPARC T2">UltraSPARC T2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SPARC_T3" title="SPARC T3">SPARC T3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SPARC_T4" title="SPARC T4">SPARC T4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SPARC_T5" title="SPARC T5">SPARC T5</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rock_(processor)" title="Rock (processor)">Rock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MAJC" title="MAJC">MAJC</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div 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