Sun Microsystems

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

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

Sun Microsystems Media

Original logo used by Sun Microsystems ca. 1982
Sun Microsystems 1980s logo
Former Menlo Park campus, now owned by Meta Platforms
Buildings 21 and 22 at Sun's headquarters campus in Santa Clara
Sun in Markham, Ontario, Canada
Sun server racks at Seneca College (York Campus)
A Sun server rack at the Computer Museum of America in Roswell, Georgia
SPARCstation 1+* * 25MHz SPARC * 1152x900 256-color (cg6 GX accelerated) graphics * Mosaic web browser and IRC client visible on screenIntel Inside sticker on keyboard is not accurate. *Picture taken circa early 1994. by Mike Chapman