Sun Micro Company Profile

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Company Name	Sun Micro
Website	www.sun.com
Snippet	Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun for short) was an American company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the Network File System (NFS), and SPARC microprocessors. Sun contributed significantly to the evolution of several key computing technologies, among them Unix, RISC processors, thin client computing, and virtualized computing. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982.[2] At its height, the Sun headquarters were in Santa Clara, California (part of Silicon Valley), on the former west campus of the Agnews Developmental Center.
Fate	Acquired by Oracle
Owner	Oracle Corporation
Defunct	January 27, 2010 (2010-01-27)
Founded	1982
Website	www.sun.com
Founders	Scott McNealy, Vinod Khosla, Andy Bechtolsheim, Bill Joy
Industry	Information technology
Products	Servers, Workstations, Storage, Services
Traded as	NASDAQ: SUNW, NASDAQ: JAVA
Former type	Public
Headquarters	Menlo Park, California, U.S.
Number of employees	38,600 (near peak, 2006)[1]

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