Sun Microsystems facts for kids

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Sun Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) is a major supplier of UNIX based computers and are the makers of the Solaris operating system and the SPARC line of microprocessors. The company is in Santa Clara, California. It was started in 1982 by Vinod Khosla, Andy Bechtolsheim, and Scott McNealy. It has grown to become one of the largest makers of UNIX computers in the world. In January 2010, it was bought by Oracle Corporation.

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  • Sun Agnews Campus Bldgs 21 22

    Buildings 21 and 22 at Sun's headquarters campus in Santa Clara

  • Sun Oracle logo

    Logo used on hardware products by Oracle

  • Wfm sun agnews

    Aerial photograph of the Sun headquarters campus in Santa Clara, California

  • SunCanada

    Sun in Markham, Ontario, Canada

  • SPARCstation 1

    SPARCstation 1+

  • VirtualBox2

    VirtualBox, purchased by Sun


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