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      • Oracle announced Wednesday it completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems in a deal valued at more than $7 billion, a move that transforms the database and business-software giant into a hardware company as well.
      www.cnet.com/culture/oracle-buys-sun-becomes-hardware-company/
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  2. Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun for short) was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the Network File System (NFS), and SPARC microprocessors.

  3. May 30, 2014 · Sun Microsystems—born in 1982, gone public in 1986, struggling in the 2000s, and absorbed by Oracle in 2010—left its mark on Silicon Valley and the world. In Sun’s wake are 235 000 people who can count themselves as former employees.

  4. Apr 24, 2009 · Dot-com bust, failure to embrace x86 processors ended Sun’s life as an independent company, analysts say. There are many reasons Sun wasn’t able to survive as an independent company. Chief ...

  5. Oct 13, 2019 · Sun Microsystems is a Silicon Valley legend. Ten years after it was acquired by Oracle, the company’s past employees still have fond feelings for their former home — and a historic reunion happened two weeks ago at the Hyatt Regency by the San Francisco airport.

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  6. Dec 7, 2023 · The whole saga of what happened to Sun Microsystems? It’s a blockbuster lesson in adaptability, or, well, the lack of it. They missed the bus on a few thingsx86, the mobile craze, the cloud revolution.

  7. Mar 1, 2011 · After establishing the Java Community Process, where the votes of many small companies -- Instantiations, Bluestone, BEA Systems, Borland, JBoss -- could offset IBM, Oracle, and HP, Sun Microsystems realized it had missed a major opportunity and waded back into tools, a burgeoning field.

  8. Oct 20, 2008 · Sun has taken big restructuring charges every year for the last seven years (the $97m charge in 2007 was the only year it fell below $100m.) That must be some sort of record. The running total is...

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