Sun Microsystems
Type	Public
Founded	February 24, 1982 Stanford University in Palo Alto, California
Founder	Vinod Khosla Andy Bechtolsheim Bill Joy Scott McNealy
Fate	Acquired by Oracle
Defunct	January 27, 2010
Headquarters	Menlo Park, CA
Website	http://www.sun.com/

Sun Microsystems, Inc. was an American fabless semiconductor company that sold computers and computer hardware as well as software and services. Sun has developed many notable technologies including the SPARC RISC ISA and the Java programming language.

On April 20 2009, Oracle announced they will acquire Sun for $7.4 billion. The acquisition was completed on January 27 2010.

Processor Families

• microSPARC
• SuperSPARC
• UltraSPARC
• ... continued as Oracle's SPARC

Other topics

• Java