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aris and was used in the open source community the principal differences between staroffice and openoffice org were that staroffice was supported by sun was available as either a single user retail box kit or as per user blocks of licensing for the enterprise and included a wider range of fonts and document templates and a commercial quality spellchecker 90 staroffice also contained commercially licensed functions and add ons in openoffice org these were either replaced by open source or free variants or are not present at all both packages had native support for the opendocument format derivatives of openoffice org continue to be developed these are libreoffice collabora online apache openoffice and neooffice virtualization and datacenter automation software edit virtualbox purchased by sun in 2007 sun announced the sun xvm virtualization and datacenter automation product suite for commodity hardware sun also acquired virtualbox in 2008 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 t2 plus server platforms sun marketed sun ops center provisioning software for datacenter automation on the client side sun offered virtual desktop solutions desktop environments and applications could be hosted in a 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 a variety of networks were supported from lan to wan or the public internet virtual desktop products included sun ray server software sun secure global desktop and sun virtual desktop infrastructure database management systems edit sun acquired mysql ab the developer of the mysql database in 2008 for us 1 billion 91 ceo jonathan schwartz mentioned in his blog that optimizing the performance of mysql was one of the priorities of the acquisition 92 in february 2008 sun began to publish results of the mysql performance optimization work 93 sun contributed to the postgresql project on the java platform sun contributed to and supported java db other software edit sun offered other software products for software development and infrastructure services many were developed in house others came from acquisitions including tarantella waveset technologies 52 seebeyond and vaau sun acquired many of the netscape non browser software products as part a deal involving netscape s merger with aol 94 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 then the sun java system sun s middleware product was branded as the java enterprise system or jes and marketed for web and application serving communication calendaring directory identity management and service oriented architecture sun s open esb and other software suites were available free of charge on systems running solaris red hat enterprise linux hp ux and windows with support available optionally sun developed data center management software products which included the solaris cluster high availability software and a grid management package called sun grid engine and firewall software such as sunscreen for network equipment providers and telecommunications customers sun developed the sun netra high availability suite sun produced compilers and development tools under the sun studio brand for building and developing solaris and linux applications sun entered the software as a service saas market with zembly a social cloud based computing platform and project kenai an open source project hosting service storage edit sun 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 1 billion in cash or 37 00 per share a deal completed in august 2005 in 2006 sun introduced the sun storagetek 5800 system the first application aware programmable storage solution in 2008 sun contributed the source code of the storagetek 5800 system under the bsd license 95 sun announced the sun open storage platform in 2008 built with open source technologies in late 2008 sun announced the sun storage 7000 unified storage systems codenamed amber road transparent placement of data in the systems solid state drives ssd and conventional hard drives was managed by zfs to take advantage of the speed of ssds and the economy of conventional hard disks 96 other storage products included sun fire x4500 storage server and sam qfs filesystem and storage management software high performance computing edit sun marketed the sun constellation system for high performance computing hpc even before the introduction of the sun constellation system in 2007 sun s products were in use in many of the top500 systems and supercomputing centers lustre was used by seven of the top 10 supercomputers in 2008 as well as other industries that need high performance storage six major oil companies including bp shell and exxonmobil chip design including synopsys and sony and the movie industry including harry potter and spider man 97 sun fire x4500 was used by high energy physics supercomputers to run dcache sun grid engine was a popular workload scheduler for clusters and computer farms sun visualization system allowed 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 was two sun md s20 units used by the stanford linear accelerator center the sun hpc clustertools product was a set of message passing interface mpi libraries and tools for running parallel jobs on solaris hpc clusters beginning with version 7 0 sun switched from its own implementation of mpi to open mpi and donated engineering resources to the open mpi project sun was a participant in the openmp language committee sun studio compilers and tools implemented the openmp specification for shared memory parallelization in 2006 sun built the tsubame supercomputer which was until june 2008 the fastest supercomputer in asia sun built ranger at the texas advanced computing center tacc in 2007 ranger had a peak performance of over 500 tflops and was the sixth most powerful supercomputer on the top500 list in november 2008 sun announced an opensolaris distribution that integrated sun s hpc products with others 98 staff edit a fountain within the sun main campus in santa clara see also list of sun microsystems employees notable sun employees included john gilmore whitfield diffie radia perlman ivan sutherland and marc tremblay 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 james gosling led the team which developed the java programming language jon bosak led the creation of the xml specification at w3c in 2005 sun microsystems was one of the first fortune 500 companies that instituted a formal social media program 99 sun staff published articles on the company s blog site 100 staff were encouraged to use the site to blog on any aspect of their work or personal life with few restrictions placed on staff other than commercially confidential material jonathan i schwartz was one of the first ceos of large companies to regularly blog his postings were frequently quoted and analyzed in the press 101 102 acquisition by oracle edit main article sun acquisition by oracle logo used on hardware products by oracle on september 3 2009 the european commission opened an in depth investigation into the proposed takeover of sun microsystems by oracle 103 on november 9 2009 the commission issued a statement of objections 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