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    Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun for short) was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology...
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    "Sun Microsystems announces formation of JavaSoft" (Press release). Sun Microsystems. 9 January 1996. Archived from the original on 2008-02-10. "Sun Opens...
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    open-sourced version of the earlier StarOffice, which Sun Microsystems acquired in 1999 for internal use. Sun open-sourced the OpenOffice suite in July 2000...
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  • Sun Open Storage was an open source computer data storage platform developed by Sun Microsystems. Sun Open Storage was advertised as avoiding vendor lock-in...
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    Andy Bechtolsheim (category Sun Microsystems people)
    German electrical engineer, entrepreneur and investor. He co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 and was its chief hardware designer. As of March 2024,[update]...
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    Oracle Solaris (redirect from Sun Solaris)
    developed by Sun Microsystems. After the Sun acquisition by Oracle in 2010, it was renamed Oracle Solaris. Solaris superseded the company's earlier SunOS in 1993...
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    2010). "Survival of the Fittest" (Book excerpt). Parade. O'Brien, Soledad; Sun, Rebecca (as told to) (October 19, 2016). "Soledad O'Brien On Her Parents'...
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  • (NFS) is a distributed file system protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems (Sun) in 1984, allowing a user on a client computer to access files over...
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    The Sun Ray was a stateless thin client computer (and associated software) aimed at corporate environments, originally introduced by Sun Microsystems in...
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    The acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation was completed on January 27, 2010. After the acquisition was completed, Oracle, only a software...
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  • Oracle Labs (formerly Sun Microsystems Laboratories, or Sun Labs) is a research and development branch of Oracle Corporation. The labs were created when...
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    Sun-1 was the first generation of UNIX computer workstations and servers produced by Sun Microsystems, launched in May 1982. These were based on a CPU...
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  • Engineering in 2017. Early in his career, he worked for Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems. He co-founded Nvidia in April 1993 with Curtis Priem and Jen-Hsun...
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    BEA Systems (2008), an enterprise infrastructure software company Sun Microsystems (2010), a computer hardware and software company (noted for its Java...
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  • Call (RPC), commonly known as Sun RPC is a remote procedure call system. ONC was originally developed by Sun Microsystems in the 1980s as part of their...
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    University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 1997. Nadella worked at Sun Microsystems as a member of its technology staff before joining Microsoft in 1992...
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  • Java (programming language) (category Sun Microsystems)
    originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems. It was released in May 1995 as a core component of Sun's Java platform. The original and reference...
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  • SunOS is a Unix-branded operating system developed by Sun Microsystems for their workstation and server computer systems. The SunOS name is usually only...
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    Bill Joy (category Sun Microsystems people)
    an American computer engineer and venture capitalist. He co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Scott McNealy, Vinod Khosla, and Andy Bechtolsheim...
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    marketed by Sun Microsystems (acquired in 2010 by Oracle Corporation). An external chiller and power were required for the operation of a Sun MD. A data...
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  • Tarantella, Inc. (category Sun Microsystems acquisitions)
    produced Tarantella. On July 13, 2005, Tarantella, Inc. was purchased by Sun Microsystems for US$25M. Tarantella exists now as a division of Oracle Corporation...
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    Computer before joining Sun Microsystems in 1987, where he was later promoted to Chief Operating Officer and President. After leaving Sun in 2002, he became...
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    James Gosling (category Sun Microsystems people)
    from Gosling's two marriages. Gosling was with Sun Microsystems between 1984 and 2010 (26 years). At Sun he invented an early Unix windowing system called...
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  • Graphics Adapter. From 1986 to 1993, he was a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems, where he developed the GX graphics chip. He co-founded Nvidia with...
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  • encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.2//EN" "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_2.dtd"> <web-app>...
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  • The range of meanings is similar to that of the term open standard. Sun Microsystems defined the criteria for open formats as follows: The format is based...
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    Scott McNealy (category Sun Microsystems people)
    technology company Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy, and Andy Bechtolsheim. In 2004, while still at Sun, McNealy founded Curriki...
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  • Sun Constellation System is an open petascale computing environment introduced by Sun Microsystems in 2007. Sun Blade 6048 Modular System Sun Blade X6275...
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    MySQL (redirect from SunSQL)
    company MySQL AB, which was bought by Sun Microsystems (now Oracle Corporation). In 2010, when Oracle acquired Sun, Widenius forked the open-source MySQL...
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  • Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE). It is the result of an effort Sun Microsystems began in 2006. The implementation is licensed under the GPL-2.0-only...
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