Sun Microsystems

Jeffrey Epstein (CFO )

Sun Microsystems [ ˌ ˌ sʌn maɪkɹoʊ sɪstəmz ] was a manufacturer of computers and software, which was annexed by acquisition in the Oracle Corporation in 2010. On the Founds from Stanford University in 1982, Sun an independent company in Santa Clara, California was established by then. The company initially focused on the development and manufacture of Unix workstations and became known to a wider public, especially through the development of Java technology and the programming language of the same name.

  • 2.1 Computer
  • 2.2 Other Products
  • 2.3 Special Licenses

Company History

Sun was founded on February 24, 1982 by the German Andreas von Bechtolsheim and Americans Bill Joy, Vinod Khosla and Scott McNealy, the official registration of the company, but was only on May 16. The name of the Sun derives from Stanford University Network, a former project to network the library computers at Stanford University.

Sun developed in 1984 with an NFS network file system. This was placed under an open source license, making it in the Unix world achieved a great success and is very important even today. Other projects for the world of Unix, such as NeWS, intended as an alternative to the X Window System, had, inter alia, due to the non-public source code difficult position.

The early computers of the series Sun -1, Sun 3 Sun2 and were equipped with processors from the 68000 family of Motorola ( CISC CPU) and ran under the SunOS operating system, a BSD 4.3 - descendant. With the Sun SPARC processor Sun developed a very powerful RISC CPU for their own workstations and servers Sun -4 series on which the operating systems SunOS and later Solaris ran.

With Java, Sun created in 1995 an object-oriented, system-independent programming platform, which found very many followers quickly.

1999 Sun bought the company Star Division with the office suite StarOffice, which was released in 2000 under a free license (LGPL ) as OpenOffice.org and was quickly accepted by developers from the open source community. In May 2005, Sun acquired the software company Tarantella. In April 2006, Sun Germany completed the acquisitions of StorageTek and SeeBeyond. On 24 April 2006, the company said in a press release that the former CEO Scott McNealy is replaced by Jonathan I. Schwartz, who had come to the acquisition of Lighthouse Design 1996 Sun.

Beginning of 2008, Sun for around one billion U.S. dollars, the company MySQL AB, which is the open- source MySQL database developed by then and marketed commercially. Shortly thereafter, Innotek, the manufacturer followed the virtualization solution VirtualBox.

After one of The Wall Street Journal report, IBM, Sun Microsystems was planning to take over for 6.5 billion U.S. dollars, but the negotiations failed.

Economic crisis and takeover

On 20 April 2009, Oracle announced the acquisition of Sun Microsystems for 7.4 billion U.S. dollars. On 20 August 2009, Oracle announced that it has received approval for acquisition of Sun Microsystems. The U.S. Justice Department approved reported to the acquisition by Oracle without restrictions. The EU Commission announced after the preliminary examination with on 10 November 2009 that they see the competition issues in the market for databases. They therefore expressed misgivings about the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle.Im January 2010, the European Commission approved the acquisition, however, without conditions. The world market leader for commercial databases, Oracle, thus took over the leading provider of open source databases (MySQL ) as well as Java. As a direct result of the acquisition, a number of open source projects from Oracle have averted.

For the year ended in June 2009 financial year Sun had recorded a loss of 2.2 billion dollars. Prior to 7600 jobs have been within three years, broken down, another 3,000 layoffs are planned, which will also affect European offices. The current loss of revenue due to the Sun much unfinished takeover process and consequent reluctance of customers.

Products

Computer

Model series (excerpt):

Other products

  • JavaOS - Operating system based on Java
  • CLUMEQ - Super Computer (2009)
  • HotJava - Web Browser
  • Java technology
  • OpenSolaris - open source operating system
  • SBus - Bus for expansion cards
  • StarOffice - the commercial Stamm-/Auflageversion of OpenOffice.org ( set today in Apache )
  • Sun Ray - virtualization solution
  • VirtualBox - virtualization solution
  • ZFS, QFS - File Systems

Special licenses

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  • The logo of Sun Microsystems is designed as an ambigram.
Types of business entity Chief Executive Officer Corporate spin-off Andy Bechtolsheim Sun-1 Sun-4 Storage Technology Corporation SeeBeyond Technology Corporation Competition law SuperSPARC Opteron Reuters
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