SUN Microsystems

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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

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.

Also see

  • Solaris - SUN's operating system
  • Java - SUN owned development framework
  • MySQL - open source database owned by SUN

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