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@hello everyone!!!!! Sun Microsystems From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Logo used from the 1990s until acquisition by Oracle Former type	Subsidiary Industry	Computer systems Computer software Fate	Acquired by Oracle Successor	Oracle America, Inc. Founded	1982 Founder(s)	Vinod Khosla Andy Bechtolsheim Bill Joy Scott McNealy Defunct	January 27, 2010 Headquarters	Santa Clara, California, USA Products	Servers Workstations Storage Services Employees	38,600 (near peak, 2006)[1] Parent	Oracle Corporation Website	oracle.com/sun Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold computers, computer components, computer software, and information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982.[2] At its height, Sun headquarters were in Santa Clara, California (part of Silicon Valley), on the former west campus of the Agnews Developmental Center. On January 27, 2010, Sun was acquired by Oracle Corporation for US$7.4 billion, based on an agreement signed on April 20, 2009.[3] The following month, Sun Microsystems, Inc. was merged with Oracle USA, Inc. to become Oracle America, Inc.[4] Sun products included computer servers and workstations based on its own SPARC processors as well as AMD's Opteron and Intel's Xeon processors; storage systems; and, a suite of software products including the Solaris operating system, developer tools, Web infrastructure software, and identity management applications. Other technologies included the Java platform, MySQL, and NFS. Sun was a proponent of open systems in general and Unix in particular, and a major contributor to open source software.[5] Sun's main manufacturing facilities were located in Hillsboro, Oregon and Linlithgow, Scotland.