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title: "Sun Microsystems: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: ", often known as Sun for short, was an American technology company that existed from 1982 to 2010 which developed and sold computers, computer hardware, software, and information technology services. Sun contributed significantly to the evolution of several key computing technologies, among them Unix, RISC processors, thin client computing, and virtualized computing."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-sun-microsystems
type: Organization
wikidata: Q14647
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems
website: https://www.sun.com/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Sun Microsystems

> , often known as Sun for short, was an American technology company that existed from 1982 to 2010 which developed and sold computers, computer hardware, software, and information technology services. Sun contributed significantly to the evolution of several key computing technologies, among them Unix, RISC processors, thin client computing, and virtualized computing.

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## Facts

- Category: Chips and hardware
- Country: United States
- Founded: 1982-02-24
- Dissolved: 2010-01-27
- Headquarters: Santa Clara
- Status: closed
- Website: https://www.sun.com/
- Employees: 34,600 (as of 2007-01-01)
- Also known as: Stanford University Network, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Sun
- Industries: computing, software development

## Key people

- Andy Bechtolsheim, founder (German electrical engineer (born 1955) Co-founder of Sun Microsystems; early investor in Google)
- Bill Joy, founder (American computer scientist)
- Vinod Khosla, founder (Indian-American businessman)
- Scott McNealy, founder (American businessman)
- Jonathan I. Schwartz, chief executive (American businessman)
- Satya Nadella (Indian-American business executive and CEO of Microsoft)
- James Gosling (Canadian computer scientist)
- Ian Murdock (American computer scientist, open source developer, entrepreneur (1973-2015))
- Ivan Sutherland (American computer scientist and Internet pioneer)
- Radia Perlman (American software designer and network engineer (born 1951))
- Jakob Nielsen (Danish web usability consultant)
- Peter Norvig (American computer scientist)
- Valerie Aurora (American computer scientist and activist)
- Danese Cooper (American advocate of open source software)
- William English (American computer engineer (1929–2020))
- Robyn Denholm (Australian businesswoman, chairwoman of Tesla, Inc.)
- Susan Landau (American mathematician and engineer)

## Ownership

Parent: [Oracle Corporation](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-oracle-corporation.md)
Subsidiaries: Storage Technology Corporation

## Products

- computer hardware
- software
- server
- workstation

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Sun Microsystems, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-sun-microsystems#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14647, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems
- Filings: SEC EDGAR, https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0000709519

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