Sun Microsystems
Type	Public (NASDAQ: JAVA)
Founded	1982
Headquarters	Santa Clara, California, United States
Key people	Scott McNealy, Chairman Jonathan I. Schwartz, President and CEO William MacGowan, Executive Vice President, People and Places, and CHRO Greg Papadopoulos, Executive Vice President and CTO
Industry	Diversified computer systems
Products	Computer servers, workstations, storage, software, and services
Revenue	▲US$13. The NASDAQ (acronym of National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is an American Stock exchange. Santa Clara California (ˌsæntəˈklærə founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852 is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U Scott McNealy (b November 13 1954, Columbus Indiana) is the Chairman of Sun Microsystems, the computer technology company he co-founded Jonathan Ian Schwartz (born October 20, 1965) is the current President and CEO of Sun Microsystems, as well as a member of the Company's A chief executive officer ( CEO) or chief executive is typically the highest-ranking corporate officer ( executive) or administrator Greg Papadopoulos PhD is the current Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO of Sun Microsystems. For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" In Marketing, a product is anything that can be offered to a Market that might satisfy a want or need A server is a Computer dedicated to providing one or more services over a computer network typically through a request-response routine A workstation, such as a Unix workstation, RISC workstation or Engineering workstation, is a high-end Microcomputer Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, refers to Computer components devices and recording media that retain digital In business revenue or revenues is Income that a company receives from its normal business activities usually from the sale of goods and services The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been 873 billion (FY07)[1]
Operating income	▲US$309 million (FY07)[1]
Net income	▲US$473 million (FY07)[1]
Employees	33,350 (2008)[2]
Website	http://sun.com/

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Products include computer servers and workstations based on its own SPARC processors as well as AMD's Opteron and Intel's Xeon processors; storage systems; and, a suite of software products including the Solaris Operating System, developer tools, Web infrastructure software, and identity management applications. A server is a Computer dedicated to providing one or more services over a computer network typically through a request-response routine A workstation, such as a Unix workstation, RISC workstation or Engineering workstation, is a high-end Microcomputer SPARC (from Scalable Processor Architecture is a RISC Microprocessor Instruction set architecture originally The Opteron is AMD 's X86 server processor line and was the first processor to implement the AMD64 Instruction set architecture (known The Xeon brand refers to many families of Intel 's x86 Multiprocessing CPUs – for dual-processor (DP and multi-processor (MP configuration Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, refers to Computer components devices and recording media that retain digital Solaris is a Unix -based Operating system introduced by Sun Microsystems in 1992 as the successor to SunOS. In Information systems identity management is the management of the identity Life cycle of entities (subjects or objects Other technologies of note include the Java platform and NFS. Java refers to a number of Computer software products and specifications from Sun Microsystems that together provide a system for developing Application software Network File System (NFS is a Network file system protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems in 1983 allowing a user on a client Computer to access

Sun is a proponent of open systems in general and UNIX in particular and a major contributor of open source software. Open source is a development methodology which offers practical accessibility to a product's source (goods and knowledge ^[5]

Sun's manufacturing facilities are located in Hillsboro, Oregon and Linlithgow, Scotland. Hillsboro is a city in and the County seat of Washington County, Oregon, United States Linlithgow ( pronounced) ( Scottish Gaelic: Gleann Iucha, Scots Lithgae) is a town and former Royal Burgh in Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

Contents 1 History 1.1 The "Bubble" and its aftermath 1.2 Present focus 1.3 Reverse stock split 1.4 Acquisitions 2 Hardware 2.1 Motorola-based systems 2.2 SPARC-based systems 2.3 x86-based systems 3 Software 3.1 Operating systems 3.2 Java platform 3.3 Office suite 3.4 Virtualization and datacenter automation software 3.5 Database management systems 3.6 Other software 4 Storage 5 HPC solutions 6 Staff 7 See also 8 References 9 External links

History

The initial design for what became Sun's first Unix workstation, the Sun 1, was conceived by Andy Bechtolsheim when he was a graduate student at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Sun-1 was the first generation of UNIX Computer workstations and servers produced by Sun Microsystems, launched in May 1982 Andy (Andreas von Bechtolsheim is an electrical engineer who co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy, and Scott Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University or simply Stanford, is a private Research university located in Palo Alto (ˌpæloʊˈæltoʊ from Spanish: palo: "stick" and alto: "high" i California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. He originally designed the SUN workstation for the Stanford University Network communications project as a personal CAD workstation. The original Stanford University Network SUN workstation was designed to be a low cost ($10000 personal Workstation for computer aided logic design work The Stanford University network was one of the the four original ARPANET nodes A workstation, such as a Unix workstation, RISC workstation or Engineering workstation, is a high-end Microcomputer It was designed as a 3M computer: 1 MIPS, 1 Megabyte and 1 Megapixel. 3M was a goal first proposed in the early 1980s Raj Reddy and his colleagues at CMU as a minimum specification for academic/technical Workstations at least a Megabyte It was designed around the Motorola 68000 processor with an advanced Memory management unit (MMU) to support the Unix operating system with virtual memory support^[6], He built the first ones from spare parts obtained from Stanford's Department of Computer Science and Silicon Valley supply houses. The Motorola 68000 is a 16/32-bit CISC Microprocessor core designed and marketed by Freescale Semiconductor (formerly Motorola Semiconductor A memory management unit ( MMU) sometimes called paged memory management unit ( PMMU) is a Computer hardware component responsible for handling Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX, sometimes also written as Unix with Small caps) is a computer Stanford University School of Engineering is one of the schools of Stanford University. ^[7]

On February 12, 1982 Vinod Khosla, Andy Bechtolsheim, and Scott McNealy, all Stanford graduate students, founded Sun Microsystems. Vinod Khosla (born January 28, 1955 in Pune, India) is an Indian-American Venture capitalist. Scott McNealy (b November 13 1954, Columbus Indiana) is the Chairman of Sun Microsystems, the computer technology company he co-founded Bill Joy (a primary developer of BSD), joined soon after and is counted as one of the original founders^[8]. William Nelson Joy (born Nov 8, 1954) commonly known as Bill Joy, is an American Computer scientist. The Sun name is derived from the initials of the Stanford University Network. The Stanford University network was one of the the four original ARPANET nodes Sun was profitable from its first quarter in July 1982.

Sun's initial public offering was in 1986 under the stock symbol SUNW, for Sun Workstations (later Sun Worldwide). A stock symbol or ticker symbol is a Mnemonic used to uniquely identify publicly-traded shares of a Corporation on a particular Stock market ^[9][10] The symbol was changed in 2007 to JAVA; Sun stated that the brand awareness associated with its Java platform better represented the company's current strategy. Brand awareness is a Marketing concept that refers to a consumer knowing of a brand's existence at aggregate (brand level it refers to the proportion of consumers who know Java refers to a number of Computer software products and specifications from Sun Microsystems that together provide a system for developing Application software ^[11]

Sun's logo, which features four interleaved copies of the word sun, was designed by professor Vaughan Pratt, also of Stanford University. An ambigram, also sometimes known as an inversion or flipscript, is a graphical figure that spells out a word not only in its form as presented but also in another Vaughan Ronald Pratt (born 1944 a Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, was one of the earliest pioneers in the field of Computer science. The initial version of the logo had the sides oriented horizontally and vertically, but it was subsequently redesigned so as to appear to stand on one corner.

The first Sun workstations ran a Version 7 Unix System port by UniSoft on 68000 processor-based machines. Seventh Edition Unix, also called Version 7 Unix, Version 7 or just V7, was an important early release of the Unix Operating system UniSoft Corporation is a former Unix vendor that now works on software for Digital television development and broadcast The Motorola 68000 is a 16/32-bit CISC Microprocessor core designed and marketed by Freescale Semiconductor (formerly Motorola Semiconductor

The "Bubble" and its aftermath

During the dot-com bubble, Sun experienced dramatic growth in revenue, profits, share price, and expenses. The " dot-com bubble " (or sometimes the " IT bubble " was a speculative bubble covering roughly 1995–2001 (with a climax on March 10 Some part of this was due to genuine expansion of demand for web-serving cycles, but another part was synthetic, fueled by venture capital-funded startups building out large, expensive Sun-centric server presences in the expectation of high traffic levels that never materialized. Venture capital (also known as VC or Venture) is a type of Private equity capital typically provided to immature high-potential growth companies The share price in particular increased to a level that even the company's executives were hard-pressed to defend. In response to this business growth, Sun expanded aggressively in all areas: head-count, infrastructure, and office space.

The bursting of the bubble in 2001 was the start of a period of poor business performance for Sun. ^[12] Sales dropped as the growth of online business failed to meet predictions. As online businesses closed and their assets were auctioned off, a large amount of high-end Sun hardware was available very cheaply. Much like Apple, Sun relied a great deal on hardware sales. Apple Inc, ( formerly Apple Computer Inc, is an American Multinational corporation with a focus on designing and manufacturing Consumer electronics

Multiple quarters of substantial losses and declining revenues have led to repeated rounds of layoffs,^[13][14][15] executive departures, and expense-reduction efforts. In December of 2001 the share price dropped to the 1998 pre-bubble level of about one hundred dollars or so and then kept going, a rapid fall even by the standards of the high tech sector at that time. The stock dipped below 10 dollars a year later, one-tenth of its 1990 value, then quickly bounced back to 20, where it has hovered ever since. In mid-2004, Sun ceased manufacturing operations at their Newark, California facility and consolidated all of the company's US-based manufacturing operations to their Hillsboro, Oregon facility, as part of continued cost-reduction efforts. Newark is a city in Alameda County, California, United States. Hillsboro is a city in and the County seat of Washington County, Oregon, United States ^[16] In 2006 Sun closed the Newark campus completely and moved 2,300 staff to its other campuses in the area. ^[17]

Many companies (like E-Trade and Google) chose to build Web applications based on large numbers of the less expensive PC-class x86-architecture servers running Linux, rather than a smaller number of high-end Sun servers. E*TRADE FINANCIAL Corporation ( is a Financial services company based in New York NY United States Google Inc is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online Linux (commonly pronounced ˈlɪnəks They reported benefits including substantially lower expenses (both acquisition and maintenance) and greater flexibility based on the use of open-source software. Open source is a development methodology which offers practical accessibility to a product's source (goods and knowledge That trend is slowing and may be reversing, given (1) the throughput and efficiency of Sun's new horizontally-scaled systems (see below) and (2) the fact that both Sun's flagship Solaris operating system and its UltraSPARC T1 processor are now fully open-source.

Higher level telecoms control systems such as NMAS and OSS service predominantly use Sun equipment. Operations Support Systems (also called Operational Support Systems or OSS) are computer systems used by telecommunications service providers This use is due mainly to the company basing its products around a mature and very stable version of the Unix operating system and the support service that Sun provides. Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX, sometimes also written as Unix with Small caps) is a computer

Present focus

In 2004, Sun canceled two major processor projects which emphasized high instruction level parallelism and operating frequency. Instruction-level parallelism (ILP is a measure of how many of the operations in a Computer program can be performed simultaneously Instead, the company chose to concentrate on processors optimized for multi-threading and multiprocessing, such as the UltraSPARC T1 processor (formerly known as "Niagara"). A thread in Computer science is short for a thread of execution. Multiprocessing is the use of two or more central processing units (CPUs within a single computer system Sun Microsystems ' UltraSPARC T1 Microprocessor, known until its 14 November 2005 announcement by its development Codename " The company also announced a collaboration with Fujitsu to use the Japanese company's processor chips in mid-range and high-end Sun servers. is a Japanese company specializing in Semiconductors Computers ( Supercomputers Personal computers, servers, Telecommunications For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. These servers were announced on 17 April 2007 as the M-Series, part of the SPARC Enterprise series. Events 69 - After the First Battle of Bedriacum, Vitellius becomes Roman Emperor. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. The SPARC Enterprise series is a range of UNIX Server computers co-developed by Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu introduced in 2007

In February 2005, Sun announced the Sun Grid, a grid computing deployment on which it offers utility computing services priced at $1 (US) per CPU/hour for processing and per GB/month for storage. Sun Grid is an on-demand Grid computing service operated by Sun Microsystems. Grid computing is a form of Distributed computing whereby a "super and virtual computer" is composed of a cluster of networked loosely-coupled Utility computing is the packaging of computing resources, such as computation and storage as a metered service similar to a traditional Public utility (such This offering builds upon an existing 3,000-CPU server farm used for internal R&D for over 10 years, of which Sun markets as being able to achieve 97% utilization. In August 2005, the first commercial use of this grid was announced for financial risk simulations which was later launched as its first Software as a Service product. Software as a service ( SaaS, typically pronounced 'sass' is a model of Software deployment where an application is hosted as a service provided to customers across ^[18]

In January 2005, Sun reported a net profit of $19 million for fiscal 2005 second quarter, for the first time in three years. This was followed by net loss of $9 million on GAAP basis for the third quarter 2005, as reported on April 14, 2005. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP is the standard framework of guidelines for Financial accounting. Events 43 BC - Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar 's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. In January 2007, Sun reported a net GAAP profit of $126 million on revenue of $3. 337 billion for its fiscal second quarter. Shortly following that news, it was announced that Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) would invest $700 million in the company. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (commonly referred to as KKR) is a New York City -based Private equity firm that focuses primarily on late-stage Leveraged ^[19]

In recent years Sun's engineering work has become international, with substantial groups in Bangalore, Beijing, Hamburg, Prague, St. Petersburg and Grenoble. Bangalore ( officially Bengaluru ( Kannada: ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು) is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Hamburg (English, German: ˈhambʊɐk local pronunciation Low German / Low Saxon: Hamborg) is the second-largest city in Germany Prague (ˈprɑːg Praha (ˈpraɦa see also other names) is the Capital and Largest city of the Czech Republic. Saint Petersburg ( tr: Sankt-Peterburg,) is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River Grenoble is a city and commune in south-east France situated at the foot of the Alps where the Drac joins the Isère River.

A weekly summary of news about Sun and its products is posted to "System News for Sun Users",^[20] now in its 10th year.

Reverse stock split

On November 8, 2007 Sun shareholders approved a one-for-four reverse stock split, meaning that Sun exchanged one new share of common stock for every four existing shares, at a value four times the price of the existing shares. Events 1519 - Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with great a Celebration Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. A stock split or stock divide increases the number of shares in a Public company. This did not affect the value of what each shareholder owned, nor did it change the market value of Sun as a whole. To indicate that a recent split had taken place, Sun's ticker symbol had a "D" appended to it for 20 trading days, changing it temporarily to JAVAD. ^[21]

Acquisitions

• 1987 - Trancept Systems, a high performance graphics hardware company^[22]
• 1987 - Centram Systems West, maker of networking software for PCs, Macs and Sun systems
• 1988 - Folio, Inc. , developer of intelligent font scaling technology and the F3 font format^[23]
• 1992 - INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, from Eastman Kodak Company
• 1994 - Thinking Machines Corporation hardware division
• 1996 - Cray Business Systems Division, from Silicon Graphics^[24]
• 1996 - Integrated Micro Products, specializing in fault tolerant servers
• 1996 - Thinking Machines Corporation software division
• February 1997 - LongView Technologies, LLC ^[25]
• August 1997 - Diba, a technology supplier for the Information Appliance industry^[26]
• September 1997 - Chorus Systems, creators of ChorusOS^[27]
• November 1997 - Encore Computer Corporation's storage business ^[28]
• 1998 - i-Planet , a small software company that produced the "Pony Espresso" mobile email client—most notable product of this acquisition was the later use of its name (sans hyphen) for the Sun-Netscape software alliance
• July 1998 - NetDynamics - developers of the NetDynamics Application Server ^[29]
• 1999 - German software company StarDivision and with it StarOffice
• 1999 - MAXSTRAT Corporation, a network storage company located in Milpitas, CA specializing in Fibre Channel storage servers. F3 is an Outline font format created by Folio Inc Sun Microsystems acquired Folio in 1988 and included 57 F3 fonts and the F3 interpreter TypeScaler INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation ( ISC) was a Software company, known for their versions of the Unix Operating system. Eastman Kodak Company ( is an American multinational Public company which produces imaging and photographic materials and equipment Thinking Machines Corporation was a Supercomputer manufacturer founded in Waltham Massachusetts in 1982 by W Cray Inc ( is a Supercomputer manufacturer based in Seattle Washington. Silicon Graphics Inc (commonly initialised to SGI, historically sometimes referred to as Silicon Graphics Computer Systems or SGCS) is a company In Engineering, Fault-tolerant design, also known as fail-safe design, is a design that enables a system to continue operation possibly at a reduced level (also known Thinking Machines Corporation was a Supercomputer manufacturer founded in Waltham Massachusetts in 1982 by W ChorusOS is a Microkernel Real-time operating system designed for Embedded systems. Encore Computer was an early pioneer in the Parallel computing market based in Marlborough Massachusetts. iPlanet was a product brand that was used jointly by Sun Microsystems and Netscape Communications Corporation when delivering software NetDynamics Application Server was an integrated software platform. StarOffice is Sun Microsystems ' proprietary Office suite software package.
• 1999 - Forte, an enterprise software company specializing in integration solutions and developer of Forte 4GL and TeamWare
• July 2000 - Gridware, a software company whose products managed the distribution of large computing jobs across multiple computers^[30]
• September 2000 - Cobalt Networks, an Internet appliance manufacturer^[31]
• December 2000 - HighGround, with a suite of Web-based management solutions support wide range of storage technologies and applications^[32]
• March 2002 - Clustra Systems ^[33]
• June 2002 - Afara Websystems, a company that develops next-generation SPARC processor-based technology^[34]
• September 2002 - Pirus Networks, specializing in intelligent storage services^[35]
• November 2002 - Terraspring, a pioneer in infrastructure automation software^[36]
• June 2003 - Pixo, adds to the capabilities of the Sun Content Delivery Server^[37]
• December 2003 - Waveset Technologies, an identity management solutions company^[38]
• January 2004 - Nauticus Networks ^[39]
• February 2004 - Kealia, a startup founded by original Sun founder Andy Bechtolsheim, which had been focusing on high-performance AMD-based 64-bit servers^[40]
• January 2005 - SevenSpace, a multi-platform managed services provider^[41]
• May 2005 - Tarantella, Inc. (formerly known as Santa Cruz Operation (SCO)), for $25,000,000^[42]
• June 2005 - SeeBeyond, SOA software company for $387m^[43]
• August 2005 - StorageTek ^[44]
• February 2006 - Aduva, producer of software for Solaris and Linux patch management^[45]
• October 2006 - Neogent^[46]
• April 2007 - SavaJe
• September 2007 - Cluster File Systems, Inc. Forte 4GL is a proprietary application server used for developing scalable highly-available enterprise applications Sun WorkShop TeamWare (later Forte TeamWare, then Forte Code Management Software) is a distributed Source code Revision control system made by Sun Grid Engine ( SGE) previously known as CODINE (COmputing in DIstributed Networked Environments or GRD (Global Resource Director is an Open Cobalt Networks was a maker of low-cost Linux -based servers Founded in 1996 in Mountain View California under the name Pixo was a company that developed infrastructure for Wireless systems Tarantella was a line of products developed by a branch of the company Santa Cruz Operation (SCO since 1993 SeeBeyond Technology Corporation (formerly Software Technology Corporation was a software company listed on the NASDAQ stock market ( NASDAQ: SBYN Storage Technology Corporation ( StorageTek or STK) is a worldwide technology Company that delivers a broad range of data storage offerings SavaJe (pronounced savage was the developer of the SavaJe OS a Java OS for advanced mobile phones Cluster File Systems Inc ( CFS) is the company that originally developed the Lustre Distributed file system. ^[47]
• November 2007 - Vaau, provider of Enterprise Role Management and identity compliance solutions ^[48]
• February 2008 - MySQL AB, the company offering the popular open source database MySQL ^[49]
• February 2008 - Innotek GmbH, developer of the VirtualBox virtualization product^[50][51]

Hardware

For the first decade of Sun's history, the company was predominantly a vendor of technical workstations, competing successfully as a low-cost vendor during the Workstation Wars of the 1980s. MySQL AB (founded 1995 acquired by Sun Microsystems 2008 was dual headquartered in Uppsala, Sweden and Cupertino, California MySQL is a Relational database management system (RDBMS which has more than 11 million installations VirtualBox is an X86 virtualization software package originally created by German software company innotek now developed by Sun Microsystems as part A workstation, such as a Unix workstation, RISC workstation or Engineering workstation, is a high-end Microcomputer It now has shifted its hardware product line to emphasize servers and storage.

Motorola-based systems

Sun originally used the Motorola 68k CPU family for the Sun-1 through Sun-3 computer series. The Motorola 680x0 / m68k / 68k / 68K is a family of 32-bit CISC Microprocessor CPU chips and was the primary Sun-1 was the first generation of UNIX Computer workstations and servers produced by Sun Microsystems, launched in May 1982 Sun-3 was the name given to a series of UNIX Computer workstations and servers produced by Sun Microsystems, launched on September 9th 1985 The Sun-1 employed a 68000 CPU, the Sun-2 series, a 68010. The Motorola 68000 is a 16/32-bit CISC Microprocessor core designed and marketed by Freescale Semiconductor (formerly Motorola Semiconductor Sun-2 series of UNIX Computer workstations and servers was launched by Sun Microsystems in 1983 The Motorola MC68010 processor is a 16/32-bit Microprocessor from Motorola, released in 1982. The Sun-3 series was based on the 68020, with the later Sun-3x variant using the 68030. The Motorola 68020 is a 32-bit Microprocessor from Motorola, released in 1984. The Motorola 68030 is a 32-bit Microprocessor in Motorola 's 68000 family.

SPARC-based systems

Starting with the Sun-4 line, the company used its own processor architecture, SPARC. Sun-4 is a series of Unix Computer workstations and servers produced by Sun Microsystems, launched in 1987 SPARC (from Scalable Processor Architecture is a RISC Microprocessor Instruction set architecture originally A 64-bit extension of the SPARC architecture (SPARC V9) was later introduced. '64-bit' CPUs have existed in Supercomputers since the 1960s and in RISC -based workstations and servers since the early 1990s.

Sun has implemented multiple high-end generations of the SPARC architecture, including SPARC, SuperSPARC, UltraSPARC I, UltraSPARC II, UltraSPARC III, UltraSPARC IV and currently UltraSPARC IV+ & UltraSPARC T1/UltraSPARC T2. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Sun Microsystems ' UltraSPARC T1 Microprocessor, known until its 14 November 2005 announcement by its development Codename " Sun Microsystems ' UltraSPARC T2 Microprocessor is a multithreading, multi-core CPU. Sun has developed several generations of workstations and servers, including the SPARCstation series, Sun Ultra series, Sun Fire and Sun Enterprise (originally Ultra Enterprise) servers and the Sun Blade workstations. The SPARCstation, SPARCserver and SPARCcenter product lines were a series of SPARC -based Computer workstations and servers in desktop The original Sun Ultra series was a series of UltraSPARC -based Computer workstations and servers developed and sold by Sun Microsystems from 1995 The Sun Fire server brand is a series of server computers introduced by Sun Microsystems in 2001 Sun Enterprise is a range of UNIX server computers produced by Sun Microsystems from 1996 to 2001 The Sun Blade brand name has been used twice by Sun Microsystems, firstly for a line of Computer workstations sold from 2000 to 2006 and also for a line of Blade There is also a line of lower cost processors meant for low-end systems which include the microSPARC I, microSPARC II, UltraSPARC IIe, UltraSPARC IIi, and UltraSPARC IIIi.

In the mid 1990s the company started to transform itself into a vendor of large-scale Symmetric multiprocessing servers. In Computing, symmetric multiprocessing or SMP involves a Multiprocessor computer-architecture where two or more identical processors can connect to a single Sun manufactured and marketed the 8-processor SPARCserver 1000 and 20-processor SPARCcenter 2000, which were based on work done in conjunction with Xerox PARC. PARC (Palo Alto Research Center Inc formerly Xerox PARC, is a Research and development company in Palo Alto California that began as a division of In the late 1990s this transition was accelerated by the acquisition of Cray Business Systems Division from Silicon Graphics. Cray Inc ( is a Supercomputer manufacturer based in Seattle Washington. Silicon Graphics Inc (commonly initialised to SGI, historically sometimes referred to as Silicon Graphics Computer Systems or SGCS) is a company ^[24] Cray's 32-bit CS6400 "Superserver", related to the SPARCcenter, was superseded by a 64-bit joint design by Cray and Sun which became the very successful Sun Enterprise 10000 large-scale server. The Cray Superserver 6400, or CS6400, was a Multiprocessor server Computer system produced by Cray Research Superservers Inc Sun Enterprise is a range of UNIX server computers produced by Sun Microsystems from 1996 to 2001 Driven by the increased prominence of web-serving database-searching applications, blade servers (high density rack-mounted systems) were also emphasized. Blade servers are self-contained/ all inclusive computer servers, designed for high density

The UltraSPARC T1 and T2 are notable for their multicore design, implementing eight cores, with four and eight threads per core respectively. This can drive more efficient use of CPU resources, which is of particular importance in data centers, where there is an increasing need to reduce power and air conditioning demands, much of which comes from the heat generated by CPUs. A data center is a facility used to house computer systems and associated components such as telecommunications and storage systems In December 2005, Sun announced the OpenSPARC T1, an open source hardware design of UltraSPARC T1. OpenSPARC is an Open source hardware project started in December 2005

In April 2007, Sun released the SPARC Enterprise server products, jointly designed by Sun and Fujitsu. The SPARC Enterprise series is a range of UNIX Server computers co-developed by Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu introduced in 2007 is a Japanese company specializing in Semiconductors Computers ( Supercomputers Personal computers, servers, Telecommunications The M-class SPARC Enterprise systems include high-end reliability and availability features.

The SPARC processors designed by Sun are manufactured by Texas Instruments. Texas Instruments ( better known in the electronics industry (and popularly as TI, is an American company based in Dallas, Texas, USA

List of SPARC-based systems or series: Sun-4, SPARCstation, Sun Ultra series, Sun Fire, Sun Netra, Sun Enterprise and SPARC Enterprise

x86-based systems

In the late 1980s, Sun also marketed an Intel 80386-based machine, the Sun386i; this was designed to be a hybrid system, running SunOS but at the same time supporting DOS applications. Sun-4 is a series of Unix Computer workstations and servers produced by Sun Microsystems, launched in 1987 The SPARCstation, SPARCserver and SPARCcenter product lines were a series of SPARC -based Computer workstations and servers in desktop The original Sun Ultra series was a series of UltraSPARC -based Computer workstations and servers developed and sold by Sun Microsystems from 1995 The Sun Fire server brand is a series of server computers introduced by Sun Microsystems in 2001 Sun Enterprise is a range of UNIX server computers produced by Sun Microsystems from 1996 to 2001 The SPARC Enterprise series is a range of UNIX Server computers co-developed by Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu introduced in 2007 The Sun386i (codenamed Roadrunner) was a hybrid UNIX workstation / PC compatible computer system produced by Sun Microsystems, launched This only remained on the market for a brief period of time. A follow-up "486i" upgrade was announced but only a few prototype units were ever manufactured.

Sun's brief first foray into x86 systems ended in the early 1990s, as it decided to concentrate on SPARC and retire the last Motorola systems and 386i products, a move dubbed by McNealy as "all the wood behind one arrowhead". Even so, Sun kept its hand in the x86 world, as a release of Solaris for PC compatibles began shipping in 1993. IBM PC compatible computers are those generally similar to the original IBM PC, XT, and AT.

In 1997 Sun acquired Diba, Inc. , followed later by the acquisition of Cobalt Networks in 2000, with the aim of building network appliances (single function computers meant for consumers). Cobalt Networks was a maker of low-cost Linux -based servers Founded in 1996 in Mountain View California under the name Sun also marketed a network computer (a term popularized and eventually trademarked by Oracle); the JavaStation was a diskless system designed to run Java applications. Network computer (abbreviated NC) is a trademark of Oracle Corporation. Oracle Corporation ( specializes in developing and marketing Enterprise software products — particularly Database management systems In 2007 Oracle ranked The JavaStation was a Network Computer (NC developed by Sun Microsystems between 1996 and 2000 intended to run only Java applications

Although none of these business initiatives were particularly successful, the Cobalt purchase gave Sun a toehold for its return to the x86 hardware market. In 2002, Sun introduced its first general purpose x86 system, the LX50, based in part on previous Cobalt system expertise. This was also Sun's first system announced to support Linux as well as Solaris. Linux (commonly pronounced ˈlɪnəks

In 2003, Sun announced a strategic alliance with AMD to produce x86/x64 servers based on AMD's Opteron processor; this was followed shortly by Sun's acquisition of Kealia, a startup founded by original Sun founder Andy Bechtolsheim, which had been focusing on high-performance AMD-based servers. The Opteron is AMD 's X86 server processor line and was the first processor to implement the AMD64 Instruction set architecture (known

On September 12, 2005, Sun unveiled a new range of Opteron based servers: the Sun Fire X2100, X4100 and X4200 servers. Events 1213 - Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Opteron is AMD 's X86 server processor line and was the first processor to implement the AMD64 Instruction set architecture (known ^[52] These were designed from scratch by the team led by Bechtolsheim to address heat and power consumption issues commonly faced in data centers. In July 2006, the Sun Fire X4500 and X4600 systems were introduced, extending what is now a line of x64 systems that support not only Solaris, but Linux and Microsoft Windows as well. The Sun Fire X4500 data server (code-named Thumper) integrates server and storage technologies Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft.

On January 22, 2007, Sun announced a broad strategic alliance with Intel. Events 565 - Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ^[53] Intel now endorses Solaris as a mainstream operating system and as its mission critical UNIX OS for its Xeon processor-based systems, and also contributes engineering resources to OpenSolaris. The Xeon brand refers to many families of Intel 's x86 Multiprocessing CPUs – for dual-processor (DP and multi-processor (MP configuration OpenSolaris is an Open source project created by Sun Microsystems to build a developer community around Solaris Operating System technology ^[54] Sun began using the Intel Xeon processor in its x64 server line, starting with the Sun Blade X6250 server module introduced in June 2007. The Sun Blade brand name has been used twice by Sun Microsystems, firstly for a line of Computer workstations sold from 2000 to 2006 and also for a line of Blade

Software

Although Sun was initially known as a hardware company, its software history began with its founding in 1982; co-founder Bill Joy was one of the leading Unix developers of the time, having already contributed the vi editor, the C shell, and significant work on the TCP/IP stack to the BSD Unix OS. Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX, sometimes also written as Unix with Small caps) is a computer vi is a screen-oriented Text editor written by Bill Joy in 1976 for an early BSD release The C shell ( csh) is a Unix shell developed by Bill Joy for the BSD Unix system The Internet Protocol Suite (commonly TCP/IP) is the set of Communications protocols used for the Internet and other similar networks Since then, Sun has developed and acquired other software, and become widely known for the Java programming language.

Sun is known for community-based and open-source licensing of its major technologies, and for its support of its products with other open source technologies. Sun offers GNOME-based desktop software called Java Desktop System (originally code-named "Madhatter"), first distributed as a Linux implementation but now offered as part of the Solaris operating system. A gnome is a Mythical creature characterized by its extremely small size and subterranean lifestyle Java Desktop System ( JDS) is a Desktop environment from Sun Microsystems, available for Solaris, and formerly Linux. Java Desktop System ( JDS) is a Desktop environment from Sun Microsystems, available for Solaris, and formerly Linux. It supports its Java Enterprise System (a middleware stack) on Linux. Sun Java System is a Brand used by Sun Microsystems to market Computer software. It has released the source code for Solaris under the open-source Common Development and Distribution License, via the OpenSolaris community. Open source is a development methodology which offers practical accessibility to a product's source (goods and knowledge Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL is a Free software license, produced by Sun Microsystems, based on the Mozilla Public License (MPL OpenSolaris is an Open source project created by Sun Microsystems to build a developer community around Solaris Operating System technology Sun's positioning includes a commitment to indemnify users of some software from intellectual property disputes concerning that software. It offers support services on a variety of pricing bases, including per-employee and per-socket.

A report prepared for the EU by UNU-MERIT stated that Sun is the largest corporate contributor to open source movements in the world. The European Union ( EU) is a political and economic union of twenty-seven member states, located primarily in UNU-MERIT is a joint research and training center of United Nations University (UNU and Maastricht University, in the Netherlands. ^[55] According to this report, Sun's open source contributions exceed the combined total of the next five largest commercial contributors.

Operating systems

Main article: Solaris Operating System

Sun is most well known for its Unix systems, which have a reputation for system stability and a consistent design philosophy. Java Desktop System ( JDS) is a Desktop environment from Sun Microsystems, available for Solaris, and formerly Linux. Solaris is a Unix -based Operating system introduced by Sun Microsystems in 1992 as the successor to SunOS. Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX, sometimes also written as Unix with Small caps) is a computer

Sun's first workstation shipped with UniSoft V7 Unix. UniSoft Corporation is a former Unix vendor that now works on software for Digital television development and broadcast Seventh Edition Unix, also called Version 7 Unix, Version 7 or just V7, was an important early release of the Unix Operating system Later in 1982 Sun began providing SunOS, a customized 4.1BSD Unix, as the operating system for its workstations. SunOS is a version of the Unix Operating system developed by Sun Microsystems for their Workstation and server Computer

In the late 1980s, AT&T tapped Sun to help them develop the next release of their branded UNIX, and in 1988 announced they would purchase up to a 20% stake in Sun. ^[56] UNIX System V Release 4 (SVR4) was jointly developed by AT&T and Sun; this partnership triggered concern among Sun's competitors, many of whom banded together to form the Open Software Foundation (OSF). Unix System V, commonly abbreviated SysV (and usually pronounced though rarely written as System 5 was one of the versions of the Unix Operating system The Open Software Foundation ( OSF) was an organization founded in 1988 to create an Open standard for an implementation of the Unix operating By the mid-1990s, the ensuing Unix wars had largely subsided, AT&T had sold off their Unix interests, and the relationship between the two companies was significantly reduced. The Unix wars were the struggles between Vendors of the Unix Computer Operating system in the late 1980s and early 1990s to set the standard for

Sun used SVR4 as the foundation for Solaris 2, which became the successor to SunOS.

From 1992 Sun also sold INTERACTIVE UNIX, an operating system it acquired when it bought INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation from Eastman Kodak Company. INTERACTIVE UNIX System V/386 is a port of the UNIX System V Operating system for Intel x86 processors INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation ( ISC) was a Software company, known for their versions of the Unix Operating system. Eastman Kodak Company ( is an American multinational Public company which produces imaging and photographic materials and equipment This was a popular UNIX variant for the PC platform and a major competitor to market leader SCO UNIX. SCO OpenServer, previously SCO UNIX and SCO Open Desktop ( SCO ODT) is a closed source version of the Unix computer Operating system Sun's focus on INTERACTIVE UNIX diminished in favor of Solaris on both SPARC and x86 systems; it was dropped as a product in 2001.

In the past, Sun has offered a separate variant of Solaris called Trusted Solaris, which included augmented security features such as multilevel security and a least privilege access model. Trusted Solaris is a security-evaluated Operating system based on Solaris by Sun Microsystems, featuring a Mandatory access control model Multilevel Security (also written as multi-level security or abbreviated as MLS) is the application of a computer system to process information with different sensitivities In Information security, Computer science, and other fields the principle of least privilege, also known as the principle of minimal privilege or just Solaris 10 included many of the same capabilities as Trusted Solaris when it was released in 2005; the Solaris 10 11/06 update included Solaris Trusted Extensions, which give it the remaining capabilities needed to make it the functional successor to Trusted Solaris.

Following several years of difficult competition and loss of server market share to competitors' Linux-based systems, Sun began to include Linux as part of its strategy in 2002. Linux (commonly pronounced ˈlɪnəks Sun supports both Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on its x64 systems; companies such as Canonical Ltd., Wind River Systems and MontaVista also support their versions of Linux on Sun's SPARC-based systems. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux distribution produced by Red Hat and targeted toward the commercial market including mainframes. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ( SLES) is a Linux distribution supplied by Novell, targeted at the business market Canonical Ltd is a Private company founded (and funded by South African Entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth for the promotion of Free software Wind River Systems Inc is a publicly owned company providing Embedded systems development tools for embedded systems Middleware, and other types of Software MontaVista Software is a Software developer that develops Embedded Linux system software development tools and related software

In 2004, Sun surprised the industry when, after having cultivated a reputation as one of Microsoft's most vocal antagonists, it entered into a joint relationship with them, resolving various legal entanglements between the two companies and receiving a US$1 billion settlement payment from them. Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational Computer technology Corporation, which rose to dominate the Home computer Sun now supports Microsoft Windows on its x64 systems, and has announced other collaborative agreements with Microsoft, including plans to support each others' virtualization environments. ^[57]

Java platform

The Java platform was developed at Sun in the early 1990s with the objective of allowing programs to function regardless of the device they were used on, sparking the slogan "Write once, run anywhere" (WORA). Java refers to a number of Computer software products and specifications from Sun Microsystems that together provide a system for developing Application software " Write once run anywhere " ( WORA) or sometimes Write once run everywhere (WORE is a slogan created by Sun Microsystems to illustrate the While this objective has not been entirely achieved (prompting the riposte "Write once, debug everywhere"), Java is regarded as being largely hardware- and operating system-independent.

Java was initially promoted as a platform for client-side applets running inside web browsers, but has been more successful on the server side of the Internet. A Java applet is an Applet delivered in the form of Java bytecode. Server-side refers to operations that are performed by the server in a Client-server relationship in Computer networking.

The platform consists of three major parts, the Java programming language, the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), and several Java Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). A Java Virtual Machine ( JVM) is a set of computer software programs and data structures which use a Virtual machine There are three types of Java Programming Language Application Programming Interfaces (APIs: the official core Java API contained in the JDK or The design of the Java platform is controlled by the vendor and user community through the Java Community Process (JCP). The Java Community Process or JCP, established in 1998, is a formalized process which allows interested parties to be involved in the definition of future versions

Java is an object-oriented programming language. Object-oriented programming (OOP is a Programming paradigm that uses " objects " and their interactions to design applications and computer programs Since its introduction in late 1995, it has become one of the world's most popular programming languages. ^[58]

In order to allow programs written in the Java language to be run on virtually any device, Java programs are compiled to byte code, which can be executed by any JVM, regardless of the environment. Bytecode is a term which has been used to denote various forms of Instruction sets designed for efficient execution by a software interpreter as well as being suitable

The Java APIs provide an extensive set of library routines. The Standard Edition (Java SE) of the API provides basic infrastructure and GUI functionality, while the Enterprise Edition (Java EE) is aimed at large software companies implementing enterprise-class application servers. Java Platform Standard Edition or Java SE is a widely used platform for Programming in the Java language Java Platform Enterprise Edition or Java EE is a widely used platform for server programming in the Java programming language The Micro Edition (Java ME) is used to build software for devices with limited resources, such as mobile devices. In computing the Java Platform Micro Edition or Java ME (still commonly referred to by its previous name Java 2 Platform Micro Edition or J2ME) is a specification

On November 13, 2006, Sun announced that it would be licensing its Java implementation under the GNU General Public License; they released their Java compiler and JVM at that time. Events 1002 - English king Ethelred orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. A Java compiler is a Compiler for the Java programming language. ^[59]

Office suite

In 1999, Sun acquired the German software company StarDivision and with it StarOffice, which it released as the office suite OpenOffice.org under both GNU LGPL and the SISSL (Sun Industry Standards Source License). StarOffice is Sun Microsystems ' proprietary Office suite software package. In Computing, an office suite, sometimes called an office software suite or productivity suite is a Software suite intended to be used by typical OpenOfficeorg ( OOo or OOo) is a free Cross-platform office application suite available for a number of different computer The GNU Lesser General Public License (formerly the GNU Library General Public License) or LGPL is a Free software license published by the Free Software The Sun Industry Standards Source License ( SISSL) is now a retired free and Open source license recognized as such by the Free Software Foundation OpenOffice. org supports Microsoft Office file formats (with a few flaws), is available on many platforms (primarily Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Solaris) and is widely used in the open source community. Microsoft Office is a set of interrelated desktop applications servers and services collectively referred to as an Office suite, for the Microsoft Windows and Linux (commonly pronounced ˈlɪnəks Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Mac OS X (mæk oʊ ɛs tɛn is a line of computer Operating systems developed marketed and sold by Apple Inc, the latest of which is pre-loaded on all currently Solaris is a Unix -based Operating system introduced by Sun Microsystems in 1992 as the successor to SunOS. The free software community is an informal term referring to the users and developers of Free software as well as supporters of the Free software movement.

The current StarOffice product is a closed-source product based on OpenOffice. org. The principal differences between StarOffice and OpenOffice. org are that StarOffice is supported by Sun, is available as either a single-user retail box kit or as per-user blocks of licensing for the enterprise, and includes a wider range of fonts and document templates and a commercial quality spellchecker^[60]. StarOffice also contains commercially licensed functions and add-ons; in OpenOffice. org these are either replaced by open-source or free variants, or are not present at all. Whilst new releases of OpenOffice. org are relatively frequent, StarOffice follows a more conservative release schedule. Both packages have native support for the OpenDocument format. The OpenDocument format (ODF is a File format for electronic office documents such as Spreadsheets Charts presentations and

Virtualization and datacenter automation software

In 2007, Sun announced the Sun xVM virtualization and datacenter automation product suite for commodity hardware. Sun xVM is a family of four technologies from Sun Microsystems that address desktop and server Virtualization, as well as datacenter automation Sun also acquired VirtualBox in 2008. VirtualBox is an X86 virtualization software package originally created by German software company innotek now developed by Sun Microsystems as part Earlier virtualization technologies from Sun like Dynamic System Domains and Dynamic Reconfiguration were specifically designed for high-end SPARC servers, and Logical Domains only supports the UltraSPARC T1/T2 server platforms. Logical Domains ( LDoms or LDOM) is a technology from Sun Microsystems which offers a virtualized computing environment abstracted from all physical Sun also has the N1 provisioning software ^[61] for datacenter automation.

On the client side, Sun offers virtual desktop solutions. A virtual desktop is a term used usually within the WIMP paradigm to describe ways in which a Computer 's Desktop environment is expanded through the use Complete desktop environments and applications can be hosted in the datacenter, with users accessing these environments from a wide range of client devices, including Microsoft Windows PCs, Sun Ray virtual display clients, Apple Macintoshes, PDAs or any combination of supported devices. Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. The Sun Ray is a Stateless Thin-client solution aimed at corporate environments introduced by Sun Microsystems in September 1999 Apple Inc, ( formerly Apple Computer Inc, is an American Multinational corporation with a focus on designing and manufacturing Consumer electronics A variety of networks are supported, from LAN to WAN or the public Internet. A virtual desktop solution can be provided through Sun Ray Software, Sun Secure Global Desktop and Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. Sun Secure Global Desktop (SGD software provides secure access to both published applications and published desktops running on Microsoft Windows, Unix, Mainframe

Database management systems

Sun acquired MySQL AB, the developer of the MySQL database in 2008. MySQL AB (founded 1995 acquired by Sun Microsystems 2008 was dual headquartered in Uppsala, Sweden and Cupertino, California MySQL is a Relational database management system (RDBMS which has more than 11 million installations CEO Jonathan Schwartz mentioned in his blog that optimizing the performance of MySQL is one of the priorities of the acquisition. ^[62] In February 2008, Sun began to publish results of the MySQL performance optimization work. ^[63] Sun is also a contributor to the PostgreSQL project. PostgreSQL is an Object-relational database management system (ORDBMS On the Java platform, Sun contributes to, ships, and offers support for JavaDB.

Other software

Sun offers a range of other software products for software development and infrastructure services. Many of these products were developed in house; others have come from a series of acquisitions, including Tarantella, Waveset Technologies,^[38], SeeBeyond, and Vaau. Tarantella was a line of products developed by a branch of the company Santa Cruz Operation (SCO since 1993 SeeBeyond Technology Corporation (formerly Software Technology Corporation was a software company listed on the NASDAQ stock market ( NASDAQ: SBYN Sun also acquired many of the Netscape non-browser software products as part a deal involving Netscape's merger with AOL. Netscape Communications (formerly known as Netscape Communications Corporation and commonly known as Netscape) is an American computer services company ^[64]. These software products were initially offered under the iPlanet brand; once the Sun-Netscape alliance ended, they were re-branded as Sun ONE (Sun Open Network Environment), and more recently as the Sun Java System. iPlanet was a product brand that was used jointly by Sun Microsystems and Netscape Communications Corporation when delivering software Sun ONE is a brand under which Sun Microsystems used to market server software products Sun Java System is a Brand used by Sun Microsystems to market Computer software.

Today, Sun's middleware stack is branded as the Java Enterprise System (or JES), and fulfills web and application serving, as well as communication, calendaring, directory, identity management and SOA/BI roles. Middleware is computer Software that connects Software components or applications In Computing, a solution stack is a set of Software subsystems or components needed to deliver a fully functional solution, e Service-oriented architecture ( SOA) is a method for Systems development and integration where functionality is grouped around Business processes Business intelligence ( BI) refers to technologies applications and practices for the collection integration analysis and presentation of business Information and The software is available for download and use free of charge on systems running Solaris, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, HP-UX, and Windows, with support available optionally. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux distribution produced by Red Hat and targeted toward the commercial market including mainframes. HP-UX (Hewlett Packard UniX is Hewlett-Packard 's proprietary implementation of the Unix Operating system, based on System V (initially Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft.

Sun has developed data center management software products, which include the Solaris Cluster high availability software, and a grid management package called Sun Grid Engine. Solaris Cluster (sometimes Sun Cluster or SunCluster) is a High-availability cluster software product for the Solaris Operating System, created Grid computing is a form of Distributed computing whereby a "super and virtual computer" is composed of a cluster of networked loosely-coupled Sun Grid Engine ( SGE) previously known as CODINE (COmputing in DIstributed Networked Environments or GRD (Global Resource Director is an Open

Sun also produces a suite of compilers and development tools under the Sun Studio brand, for building and developing Solaris and Linux applications. The Sun Studio compiler suite is Sun Microsystems ' flagship software development product for Solaris and Linux.

Storage

Sun has long sold its own storage systems to complement its system offerings; it has also made several storage-related acquisitions. On June 2, 2005, Sun announced it would purchase Storage Technology Corporation (StorageTek) for US$4. Events 455 - The Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Storage Technology Corporation ( StorageTek or STK) is a worldwide technology Company that delivers a broad range of data storage offerings 1 billion in cash, or $37. 00 per share, a deal completed the following August.

In 2006, Sun introduced the Sun StorageTek 5800 System, the world's first application-aware programmable storage solution. The Sun StorageTek 5800 System ( Codename: Honeycomb is an object-based storage system from Sun Microsystems that uses a symmetric clustered design with both processing In 2008, Sun contributed the source code of the StorageTek 5800 System under the BSD license. ^[65]

Other well-known storage products include Sun Fire X4500 storage server and SAM-QFS filesystem and storage management software. The Sun Fire X4500 data server (code-named Thumper) integrates server and storage technologies QFS (Quick File System is a filesystem sold by Sun Microsystems.

HPC solutions

With Sun Constellation System, Sun is increasing its focus in High-Performance Computing (HPC). Sun Constellation System is an open petascale computing environment introduced by Sun Microsystems in 2007 High-performance computing (HPC uses Supercomputers and Computer clusters to solve advanced computing problems Even before the introduction of the Sun Constellation System in 2007, Sun's products were already in use in many of the TOP500 systems and supercomputing centers:

• Lustre - used by 7 of the top 10 supercomputers in 2008, as well as other industries that need scalable and high-performance storage: 6 major oil companies (BP, Shell, ExxonMobil), chip-design (Synopsys, Sony), and the movie-industry (Harry Potter, Spider-Man). The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful known Computer systems in the world Lustre is a Shared disk file system, generally used for large scale Cluster computing. BP plc, previously known as British Petroleum, is the third largest global Energy company, a multinational oil company (" Oil major Royal Dutch Shell plc, commonly known simply as Shell, is a multinational oil company of Dutch and British origins The Exxon Mobil Corporation, or ExxonMobil, is an American oil and gas Corporation and a direct descendant of John D Not to be confused with Synopsis Synopsys Inc is one of the largest companies in the Electronic design automation industry is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest Media conglomerates with The Harry Potter films are a fantasy series Spider-Man is a Fictional character appearing in Comic books published by Marvel Comics. ^[66]
• Sun Fire X4500 - used by high energy physics supercomputers to run dCache
• Sun Grid Engine - a popular workload scheduler for clusters and compute farms
• Sun Visualization System - allows users of the TeraGrid to remotely access the 3D rendering capabilities of the Maverick system at the University of Texas at Austin
• Sun Modular Datacenter (Project Blackbox) - 2 Sun MD S20 units are used by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

The Sun HPC Cluster Tools product is a set of MPI libraries and tools for running parallel jobs on Solaris HPC clusters. The Sun Fire X4500 data server (code-named Thumper) integrates server and storage technologies Sun Grid Engine ( SGE) previously known as CODINE (COmputing in DIstributed Networked Environments or GRD (Global Resource Director is an Open Sun Visualization System is a sharable visualization solution introduced by Sun Microsystems in 2007 TeraGrid is an open scientific discovery infrastructure combining large computing resources (including Supercomputers storage and scientific visualization systems Sun Modular Datacenter ( Sun MD, known in the prototype phase as Project Blackbox) is a portable Data center built into a standard 20' Shipping container The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center ( SLAC) is a United States Department of Energy National Laboratory operated by Stanford University under Message Passing Interface ( MPI) is a specification for an API that allows many computers to communicate with one another Beginning with version 7. 0, Sun switched from its own implementation of MPI to OpenMPI, and has started donating engineering resources to the OpenMPI project. Open MPI is a project combining technologies and resources from several other projects (FT-MPI LA-MPI LAM/MPI, and PACX-MPI with the stated aim of building the best Message

In 2006, Sun built the TSUBAME supercomputer, which as of 2007 is the fastest supercomputer in Asia. Sun is building Ranger at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). The Texas Advanced Computing Center ( TACC) at the University of Texas at Austin, United States, is a research center for advanced Computational science When completed, Ranger will have a peak performance of over 500 TFLOPS, and is likely to be in the top 10 on the TOP500 list. The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful known Computer systems in the world

Staff

See also: List of notable Sun Microsystems employees

Notable Sun employees include John Gilmore, Whitfield Diffie, Radia Perlman, Marc Tremblay, and Ned Freed. These notable people work or used to work at Sun Microsystems. John Gilmore is one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks mailing list and Cygnus Solutions. Bailey Whitfield 'Whit' Diffie (born June 5 1944) is a US Cryptographer and one of the pioneers of Public-key cryptography. Dr Radia Joy Perlman (born 1951 in Portsmouth Virginia) is a software designer and network engineer sometimes referred to as the 'Mother of the Internet' Marc Tremblay is a fellow senior vice president chief technology officer and chief architect at Sun Microsystems. Ned Freed is the author or co-author of several IETF RFCs, most relating to e-mail or security Sun was an early advocate of Unix-based networked computing, promoting TCP/IP and especially NFS, as reflected in the company's motto "The Network Is The Computer", coined by John Gage. The Internet Protocol Suite (commonly TCP/IP) is the set of Communications protocols used for the Internet and other similar networks Network File System (NFS is a Network file system protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems in 1983 allowing a user on a client Computer to access John Burdette Gage (born 1942 is one of the founders of Sun Microsystems with Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy, Bill Joy, Andy Bechtolsheim James Gosling led the team which developed the Java programming language. James A Gosling OC, PhD (born May 19, 1955 near Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a famous Software developer Most recently, Jon Bosak led the creation of the XML specification at W3C. Jon Bosak led the creation of the XML specification at the W3C. Don't change "Extensible"

Many Sun staff publish articles on the company's blog site. Staff are encouraged to use the site to blog on any aspect of their work or personal life. There are few restrictions placed on staff, other than commercially confidential material. Sun staff are inspired to blog by CEO Jonathan I. Schwartz, whose own blog is widely read, is translated into other languages, and is frequently quoted and analyzed in the press. Jonathan Ian Schwartz (born October 20, 1965) is the current President and CEO of Sun Microsystems, as well as a member of the Company's ^[67][68][69]

See also

• Callan Data Systems
• Global Education Learning Community
• Interactive Systems Corporation
• Liberty Alliance
• NetBeans
• Sun Certified Professional
• Sun Modular Datacenter
• List of computer system manufacturers

References

External links

• Official website
• blogs.sun.com - Sun employees openly blogging about work and non-work
• Sun's external Wiki
• Sun Microsystems at the Open Directory Project
• SunHELP - Sun Hardware and Software References and Information

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