SUN Microsystems
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Scott McNealy from SUN presenting at the 2005 Oracle OpenWorld conference.
SUN Microsystems is a company that develops SPARC-based computer systems, the Solaris operating system, and Java development language.
Most of Oracle's products can run on the Solaris operating system.
History[edit]
SUN was founded February 1982 by Andreas von Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy and Scott McNealy.
SUN agreed to acquire MySQL AB for $1 billion in cash and assumed stock options on 16 January 2008.
On 20 April 2009, SUN and Oracle Corporation announced that they entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will buy SUN for $9.50 a share in cash.
Software product[edit]
Besides SUN's hardware and software offerigs, it owns major software brands like Solaris, MySQL, Java, OpenOffice, etc.
Also see[edit]
- Solaris - SUN's operating system
- Java - SUN owned development framework
- MySQL - open source database owned by SUN
External links[edit]
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