Sun Microsystems facts for kids

Sun Microsystems
	Logo used from the 1990s until acquisition by Oracle
Former type	Public
Traded as	NASDAQ: SUNW; NASDAQ: JAVA;
Industry	information technology;
Fate	Acquired by Oracle
Founded	February 24, 1982; 38 years ago
Founders	Scott McNealy; Vinod Khosla; Andy Bechtolsheim; Bill Joy;
Defunct	January 27, 2010
Headquarters	Menlo Park, California , U.S.
Products	Servers; Workstations; Storage; Services;
Owner	Oracle Corporation
Number of employees	38,600 (near peak, 2006)

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.

Images for kids

Buildings 21 and 22 at Sun's headquarters campus in Santa Clara
Logo used on hardware products by Oracle
Aerial photograph of the Sun headquarters campus in Santa Clara, California
Sun in Markham, Ontario, Canada
SPARCstation 1+
VirtualBox, purchased by Sun