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sheim and vinod khosla all stanford graduate students founded sun microsystems bill joy of berkeley a primary developer of the berkeley software distribution bsd joined soon after and is counted as one of the original founders 8 the sun name is derived from the initials of the stanford university network 9 10 11 sun was profitable from its first quarter in july 1982 by 1983 sun was known for producing 68k based systems with high quality graphics that were the only computers other than dec s vax to run 4 2bsd it licensed the computer design to other manufacturers which typically used it to build multibus based systems running unix from unisoft 12 sun s initial public offering was in 1986 under the stock symbol sunw for sun workstations later sun worldwide 13 14 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 15 sun s logo which features four interleaved copies of the word sun in the form of a rotationally symmetric ambigram was designed by professor vaughan pratt also of stanford the initial version of the logo was orange and had the sides oriented horizontally and vertically but it was subsequently rotated to stand on one corner and re colored purple and later blue the dot com bubble and aftermath edit during the dot com bubble sun began making more money with its stock rising as high as 250 per share 16 it also began spending much more hiring workers and building itself out some of this was because of genuine demand but much was from web start up companies anticipating business that would never happen in 2000 the bubble burst 17 sales in sun s important hardware division went into free fall as customers closed shop and auctioned high end servers several quarters of steep losses led to executive departures rounds of layoffs 18 19 20 and other cost cutting in december 2001 the stock fell to the 1998 pre bubble level of about 100 it continued to fall faster than many other technology companies a year later it had reached below 10 a tenth of what it was in 1990 but it eventually bounced back to 20 in mid 2004 sun closed their newark california factory and consolidated all manufacturing to hillsboro oregon and linlithgow scotland 21 in 2006 the rest of the newark campus was put on the market 22 post crash focus edit aerial photograph of the sun headquarters campus in santa clara california buildings 21 and 22 at sun s headquarters campus in santa clara sun in markham ontario canada in 2004 sun canceled two major processor projects which emphasized high instruction level parallelism and operating frequency instead the company chose to concentrate on processors optimized for multi threading and multiprocessing such as the ultrasparc t1 processor codenamed niagara the company also announced a collaboration with fujitsu to use the japanese company s processor chips in mid range and high end sun servers these servers were announced on april 17 2007 as the m series part of the sparc enterprise series in february 2005 sun announced the sun grid a grid computing deployment on which it offered utility computing services priced at us 1 per cpu hour for processing and per gb month for storage this offering built upon an existing 3 000 cpu server farm used for internal r d for over 10 years which sun marketed as being able to achieve 97 utilization in august 2005 the first commercial use of this grid was announced for financial risk simulations which were later launched as its first software as a service product 23 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 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 24 sun had engineering groups in bangalore beijing dublin grenoble hamburg prague st petersburg tel aviv tokyo canberra and trondheim 25 in 2007 2008 sun posted revenue of 13 8 billion and had 2 billion in cash first quarter 2008 losses were 1 68 billion revenue fell 7 to 12 99 billion sun s stock lost 80 of its value november 2007 to november 2008 reducing the company s market value to 3 billion with falling sales to large corporate clients sun announced plans to lay off 5 000 to 6 000 workers or 15 18 of its work force it expected to save 700 million to 800 million a year as a result of the moves while also taking up to 600 million in charges 26 sun acquisitions edit sun server racks at seneca college york campus a sun server rack at the computer museum of america in roswell georgia this list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items august 2008 1987 trancept systems a high performance graphics hardware company 27 1987 sitka corp networking systems linking the macintosh with ibm pcs 28 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 29 1991 interactive systems corporation s intel unix os division from eastman kodak company 1992 praxsys technologies inc developers of the windows emulation technology that eventually became wabi 30 1994 thinking machines corporation hardware division 1996 lighthouse design ltd 31 1996 cray business systems division from silicon graphics 32 1996 integrated micro products specializing in fault tolerant servers 1996 thinking machines corporation software division february 1997 longview technologies llc 33 august 1997 diba technology supplier for the information appliance industry 34 september 1997 chorus systèmes sa creators of chorusos 35 november 1997 encore computer corporation s storage business 36 1998 redcape software 1998 i planet a small software company that produced the pony espresso mobile email client its name sans hyphen for the sun netscape software alliance june 1998 dakota scientific software inc development tools for high performance computing 37 july 1998 netdynamics 38 developers of the netdynamics application server 39 october 1998 beduin 40 small software company that produced the impact small footprint java based web browser for mobile devices 1999 star division german software company and with it staroffice which was later released as open source under the name openoffice org 1999 maxstrat corporation a company in milpitas california selling fibre channel storage servers october 1999 forté software an enterprise software company specializing in integration solutions and developer of the forte 4gl 41 1999 teamware 1999 netbeans produced a modular ide written in java based on a student project at charles university in prague march 2000 innosoft international inc a software company specializing in highly scalable mtas pmdf and directory services july 2000 gridware a software company whose products managed the distribution of computing jobs across multiple computers 42 september 2000 cobalt networks an internet appliance manufacturer for 2 billion 43 december 2000 highground with a suite of web based management solutions 44 2001 lsc inc an eagan minnesota company that developed storage and archive management file system sam fs and quick file system qfs file systems for backup and archive march 2001 infrasearch a peer to peer search company based in burlingame 45 march 2002 clustra systems 46 june 2002 afara websystems developed sparc processor based technology 47 september 2002 pirus networks intelligent storage services 48 november 2002 terraspring infrastructure automation software 49 june 2003 pixo added to the sun content delivery server 50 august 2003 centerrun inc 51 december 2003 waveset technologies identity management 52 january 2004 nauticus networks 53 february 2004 kealia founded by original sun founder andy bechtolsheim developed amd based 64 bit servers 54 january 2005 sevenspace a multi platform managed services provider 55 may 2005 tarantella inc formerly known as santa cruz operation sco for 25 million 56 june 2005 seebeyond a service oriented architecture soa software company for 387m 57 june 2005 procom technology inc s nas ip assets 51 august 2005 storagetek data storage technology company for 4 1 billion 58 february 2006 aduva software for solaris and linux patch management 59 october 2006 neogent 60 april 2007 savaje the savaje os a java os for mobile phones september 2007 cluster file systems inc 61 november 2007 vaau enterprise role management and identity compliance solutions 62 february 2008 mysql ab the company offering the open source database mysql for 1 billion 63 february 2008 innotek gmbh developer of the virtualbox virtualization product 64 65 april 2008 montalvo systems x86 microprocessor startup acquired before first silicon january 2009 q layer a software company with cloud computing solutions 66 major stockholders edit as of may 11 2009 the following shareholders held over 100 000 common shares of sun 67 and at 9 50 per share offered by oracle 68 they received the amounts indicated when the acquisition closed major investors in sun investor common shares value at merger barclays global investors 37 606 708 357 million scott mcnealy 14 566 433 138 million ken oshman 584 985 5 5 million jonathan i schwartz 536 109 5 million james l barksdale 231 785 2 2 million michael e lehman 106 684 1 million hardware edit for the first decade of sun s history the company positioned its products as technical workstations competing successfully as a low cost vendor during the workstation wars of the 1980s it then shifted its hardware product line to emphasize servers and storage high level telecom control systems such as operational support systems service predominantly used sun equipment citation needed motorola based systems edit sun originally used motorola 68000 family central processing units for the sun 1 through sun 3 computer series the sun 1 employed a 68000 cpu the sun 2 series a 68010 the sun 3 series was based on the 68020 with the later sun 3x using the 68030 69 sparc based systems edit see also sparc sparcstation 1 in 1987 the company began using sparc a risc processor architecture of its own design in its computer systems starting with the sun 4 line sparc was initially a 32 bit architecture sparc v7 until the introduction of the sparc v9 architecture in 1995 which added 64 bit extensions sun developed several generations of sparc based computer systems including the sparcstation ultra and sun blade series of workstations and the sparcserver netra enterprise and sun fire line of servers in the early 1990s the company began to extend its product line to include large scale symmetric multiprocessing servers starting with the four processor sparcserver 600mp this was followed by the 8 processor sparcserver 1000 and 20 processor sparccenter 2000 which were based on work done in conjunction with xerox parc in 1995 the company introduced sun ultra series machines that were equipped with the first 64 bit implementation of sparc processors ultrasparc in the late 1990s the transformation of product line in favor of large 64 bit smp systems was accelerated by the acquisition of cray business systems division from silicon graphics 32 their 32 bit 64 processor cray superserver 6400 related to the sparccenter led to the 64 bit sun enterprise 10000 high end server otherwise known as starfire or e10k in september 2004 sun made available systems with ultrasparc iv 70 which was the first multi core sparc processor it was followed by ultrasparc iv in september 2005 71 and its revisions with higher clock speeds in 2007 72 these cpus were used in the most powerful enterprise class high end cc numa servers developed by sun such as the sun fire e15k and the sun fire e25k in november 2005 sun launched the ultrasparc t1 notable for its ability to concurrently run 32 threads of execution on 8 processor cores its intent was to 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 the t1 was followed in 2007 by the ultrasparc t2 which extended the number of threads per core from 4 to 8 sun has open sourced the design specifications of both the t1 and t2 processors via the opensparc project in 2006 sun ventured into the blade server high density rack mounted systems market with the sun blade distinct from the sun blade workstation in april 2007 sun released the sparc enterprise server products jointly designed by sun and fujitsu and based on fujitsu sparc64 vi and later processors the m class sparc enterprise systems include high end reliability and availability features later t series servers have also been badged sparc enterprise rather than sun fire in april 2008 sun released servers with ultrasparc t2 plus which is an smp capable version of ultrasparc t2 available in 2 or 4 processor configurations it was the first coolthreads cpu with multi processor capability and it made possible to build standard rack mounted servers that could simultaneously process up to massive 256 cpu threads in hardware sun sparc enterprise t5440 73 74 which is considered a record in the industry since 2010 all further development of sun machines based on sparc architecture including new sparc t series servers sparc t3 and t4 chips is done as a part of oracle corporation hardware division x86 based systems edit 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 this only remained on the market for a brief time a follow up 486i upgrade was announced but only a few prototype units were ever manufactured 75 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 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 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 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 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