On February 24, 1982,Scott McNealy,Andy Bechtolsheim, andVinod Khosla, all Stanford graduate students, foundedSun Microsystems.Bill Joy of Berkeley, a primary developer of theBerkeley Software Distribution (BSD), joined soon after and is counted as one of the original founders.[8] The company was the second, after rivalApollo Computer, to specialize in workstations.[9] The name "Sun" is derived from the initials of the Stanford University Network (SUN).[10][11][12] Sun was profitable from its first quarter in July 1982.
By 1983, Sun was known for producing68k-based systems with high-quality graphics that were the only computers other thanDEC'sVAX to run4.2BSD. It licensed thecomputer design to other manufacturers, which typically used it to buildMultibus-based systems running Unix fromUniSoft.[13] Sun's initial public offering was in 1986 under thestock symbolSUNW, forSun Workstations (laterSun Worldwide).[14][15] The symbol was changed in 2007 toJAVA; Sun stated that thebrand awareness associated with its Java platform better represented the company's current strategy.[16]
Sun's logo, which features four interleaved copies of the wordsun in the form of a rotationally symmetricambigram, was designed by professorVaughan 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.
During thedot-com bubble, Sun began making more money, with its stock rising as high as $250 per share.[17] 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.[18] 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,[19][20][21] 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 theirNewark, California, factory and consolidated all manufacturing to Hillsboro, Oregon and Linlithgow, Scotland.[22] In 2006, the rest of the Newark campus was put on the market.[23]
In 2004, Sun canceled two major processor projects which emphasized highinstruction-level parallelism and operating frequency. Instead, the company chose to concentrate on processors optimized formulti-threading andmultiprocessing, such as theUltraSPARC T1 processor (codenamed "Niagara"). The company also announced a collaboration withFujitsu 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 theSPARC Enterprise series.
In February 2005, Sun announced theSun Grid, agrid computing deployment on which it offeredutility 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 firstsoftware as a service product.[24]
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 onGAAP 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 thatKohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) would invest $700 million in the company.[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.[27]
On September 3, 2009, the European Commission opened an in-depth investigation into the proposed takeover of Sun Microsystems by Oracle.[28] On November 9, 2009, the Commission issued a statement of objections relating to the acquisition.[29] Finally, on January 21, 2010, the European Commission approved Oracle's acquisition of Sun. The Commission's investigation showed that another open database, PostgreSQL, was considered by many users of this type of software as a credible alternative to MySQL and could to some extent replace the competitive strength that the latter currently represents in the database market.[30]
Sun was sold to Oracle Corporation in 2009 for $5.6 billion.[31]
Sun's staff were asked to share anecdotes about their experiences at Sun. A website containing videos, stories, and photographs from 27 years at Sun was made available on September 2, 2009.[32]
In October, Sun announced a second round of thousands of employees to be laid off, blamed partially on delays in approval of the merger.[33]
In January 2011, Oracle agreed to pay $46 million to settle charges that it submitted false claims to US federal government agencies and paid "kickbacks" to systems integrators.[34]In February 2011, Sun's formerMenlo Park, California, campus of about 1,000,000 square feet (93,000 m2) was sold, and it was announced that it would become headquarters forFacebook.[35][36]The sprawling facility built around an enclosed courtyard had been nicknamed "Sun Quentin". The campus is now the headquarters of Facebook's parent companyMeta Platforms.[37]
On September 1, 2011, Sun India legally became part of Oracle. It had been delayed due to legal issues in Indian court.[citation needed]
1998: i-Planet, a small software company that produced the "Pony Espresso" mobile email client—its name (sans hyphen) for theSun-Netscape software alliance
June 1998: Dakota Scientific Software, Inc.—development tools for high-performance computing[48]
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[53]
September 2000:Cobalt Networks, an Internet appliance manufacturer for $2 billion[54]
December 2000: HighGround, with a suite of Web-based management solutions[55]
2001: LSC, Inc., an Eagan, Minnesota company that developed Storage and Archive Management File System (SAM-FS) and Quick File SystemQFS file systems for backup and archive
March 2001: InfraSearch, a peer-to-peer search company based in Burlingame.[56]
As of May 11, 2009, the following shareholders held over 100,000common shares of Sun[31] and at $9.50 per share offered by Oracle,[78] they received the amounts indicated when the acquisition closed.
For the first decade of Sun's history, the company positioned its products as technicalworkstations, 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 asOperational Support Systems service predominantly used Sun equipment.[citation needed]
Sun originally usedMotorola 68000 family central processing units for theSun-1 throughSun-3 computer series. The Sun-1 employed a 68000 CPU, theSun-2 series, a68010. The Sun-3 series was based on the68020, with the later Sun-3x using the68030.[79]
In 1987, the company began usingSPARC (Scalable Processor ARChitecture), a RISC processor architecture of its own design, in its computer systems, starting with theSun-4 line. SPARC was initially a32-bit architecture (SPARC V7) until the introduction of the SPARC V9 architecture in 1995, which added64-bit extensions.
Sun developed several generations of SPARC-based computer systems, including theSPARCstation,Ultra, andSun Blade series of workstations, and the SPARCserver,Netra,Enterprise, andSun Fire line of servers.
In the early 1990s the company began to extend its product line to include large-scalesymmetric 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 withXerox PARC. In 1995 the company introducedSun 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.[43] Their 32-bit, 64-processorCray Superserver 6400, related to the SPARCcenter, led to the 64-bitSun Enterprise 10000 high-end server (otherwise known asStarfire or E10K).
In September 2004, Sun made available systems withUltraSPARC IV[80] which was the first multi-core SPARC processor. It was followed by UltraSPARC IV+ in September 2005[81] and its revisions with higher clock speeds in 2007.[82] These CPUs were used in the most powerful, enterprise class high-endCC-NUMA servers developed by Sun, such as the Sun Fire E15K and theSun Fire E25K.
In November 2005, Sun launched theUltraSPARC 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 indata 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 theUltraSPARC 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 theOpenSPARC project.
In 2006, Sun ventured into theblade server (high density rack-mounted systems) market with theSun 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 FujitsuSPARC64 VI and later processors. TheM-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),[83][84] which is considered a record in the industry.
Since 2010, all further development of Sun machines based on SPARC architecture (including newSPARC T-Series servers,SPARC T3 andT4 chips) is done as a part of Oracle Corporation hardware division.
In the late 1980s, Sun also marketed anIntel 80386–based machine, theSun386i; this was designed to be a hybrid system, runningSunOS but at the same time supportingDOS 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.[85]
Sun's brief first foray intox86 systems ended in the early 1990s, as it decided to concentrate onSPARC and retire the lastMotorola systems and 386i products, a move dubbed by McNealy as "all the wood behind one arrowhead". Even so, Sun kept its hand in thex86 world, as a release ofSolaris forPC compatibles began shipping in 1993.
In 1997, Sun acquired Diba, Inc., followed later by the acquisition ofCobalt Networks in 2000, with the aim of buildingnetwork appliances (single function computers meant for consumers). Sun also marketed aNetwork Computer (a term popularized and eventually trademarked byOracle); theJavaStation 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 system announced to supportLinux as well as Solaris.
In 2003, Sun announced a strategic alliance withAMD to produce x86/x64 servers based on AMD'sOpteron processor; this was followed shortly by Sun's acquisition of Kealia, a startup founded by original Sun founderAndy Bechtolsheim, which had been focusing on high-performance AMD-based servers.
The following year, Sun launched the Opteron-based Sun Fire V20z and V40z servers, and theSun Java Workstation W1100z and W2100z workstations.
In September 2005 Sun unveiled a new range of Opteron-based servers: the Sun Fire X2100, X4100 and X4200 servers.[86] These were designed from scratch by a team led by Bechtolsheim to address heat and power consumption issues commonly faced in data centers. In July 2006, theSun Fire X4500 and X4600 systems were introduced, extending a line of x64 systems that support not only Solaris, but alsoLinux andMicrosoft Windows.
In January 2007 Sun announced a broad strategic alliance withIntel.[87] Intel endorsed Solaris as a mainstream operating system and as its mission criticalUnix for itsXeon processor–based systems, and contributed engineering resources toOpenSolaris.[88] Sun began using the Intel Xeon processor in itsx64 server line, starting with the Sun Blade X6250 server module introduced in June 2007.
In May 2008 AMD announced its Operating System Research Center (OSRC) was expanding its focus to include optimization to Sun's OpenSolaris andxVM virtualization products for AMD processors.[89]
Logo of SunSoft, the company's dedicated software division, established in 1991
Although Sun was initially known as a hardware company, its software history began with its founding in 1982; co-founder Bill Joy was one of the leading Unix developers of the time, having contributed thevi editor, theC shell, and significant work developingTCP/IP and theBSD Unix OS. Sun later developed software such as theJava programming language and acquired software such asStarOffice,VirtualBox andMySQL. In February 1991, the company established SunSoft, Inc., a wholly owned division of Sun dedicated to the development of operating systems and application software.[90]
Sun used community-based and open-source licensing of its major technologies, and for its support of its products with other open source technologies.GNOME-based desktop software calledJava Desktop System (originally code-named "Madhatter") was distributed for the Solaris operating system, and at one point for Linux. Sun supported itsJava Enterprise System (amiddleware stack) on Linux. It released the source code for Solaris under theopen-sourceCommon Development and Distribution License, via the OpenSolaris community. Sun's positioning includes a commitment to indemnify users of some software from intellectual property disputes concerning that software. It offers support services on a variety of pricing bases, including per-employee and per-socket.
A 2006 report prepared for the EU byUNU-MERIT stated that Sun was the largest corporate contributor to open source movements in the world.[91] According to this report, Sun's open source contributions exceed the combined total of the next five largest commercial contributors.
Sun is best known for its Unix systems, which have a reputation for system stability and a consistent design philosophy.[citation needed]
Sun's first workstation shipped withUniSoftV7 Unix. Later in 1982 Sun began providingSunOS, a customized 4.2BSD Unix, as the operating system for its workstations.SunOS includedsuntools, an earlyGUIwindow system.
In the late 1980s, AT&T tapped Sun to help them develop the next release of their branded UNIX, and in 1988 announced they would purchase up to a 20% stake in Sun.[92] UNIXSystem V Release 4 (SVR4) was jointly developed by AT&T and Sun.[93] Sun used SVR4 as the foundation for Solaris 2.x, which became the successor to SunOS 4.1.x (later retroactively named Solaris 1.x). By the mid-1990s, the ensuingUnix wars had largely subsided, AT&T had sold off their Unix interests, and the relationship between the two companies was significantly reduced.
In the early 1990s,Brian P. Dougherty, founder ofBerkeley Softworks (which would go on to be re-incorporated as theGeoWorks Corporation) accused the Java development team at Sun for studying GeoWorks'sPC/GEOS operating system and incorporating features of PC/GEOS into their Unix-based operating system. Brian claimed that the object-oriented and flexible UI of PC/GEOS was "to this day the most sophisticated UI technology ever built into an OS".[94]
From 1992 Sun also soldInteractive Unix, an operating system it acquired when it bought Interactive Systems Corporation from Eastman Kodak Company. This was a popular Unix variant for the PC platform and a major competitor to market leaderSCO UNIX. Sun's focus on Interactive Unix diminished in favor of Solaris on both SPARC and x86 systems; it was dropped as a product in 2001.[citation needed]
Sun dropped the Solaris 2.x version numbering scheme after the Solaris 2.6 release (1997); the following version was branded Solaris 7. This was the first 64-bit release, intended for the newUltraSPARC CPUs based on the SPARC V9 architecture. Within the next four years, the successors Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 were released in 2000 and 2002 respectively.
Following several years of difficult competition and loss of server market share to competitors' Linux-based systems, Sun began to include Linux as part of its strategy in 2002. Sun supported bothRed Hat Enterprise Linux andSUSE Linux Enterprise Server on its x64 systems; companies such asCanonical Ltd.,Wind River Systems andMontaVista also supported their versions of Linux on Sun's SPARC-based systems.
In 2004, after having cultivated a reputation as one ofMicrosoft's most vocal antagonists, Sun entered into a joint relationship with them, resolving various legal entanglements between the two companies and receiving US$1.95 billion in settlement payments from them.[95] Sun supported Microsoft Windows on its x64 systems, and announced other collaborative agreements with Microsoft, including plans to support each other's virtualization environments.[96]
In 2005, the company released Solaris 10. The new version included a large number of enhancements to the operating system, as well as very novel features, previously unseen in the industry. Solaris 10 update releases continued through the next 8 years, the last release from Sun Microsystems being Solaris 10 10/09. The following updates were released by Oracle under the new license agreement; the final release is Solaris 10 1/13.[97]
Previously, Sun offered a separate variant of Solaris calledTrusted Solaris, which included augmented security features such asmultilevel security and aleast privilege access model. Solaris 10 included many of the same capabilities as Trusted Solaris at the time of its initial release; Solaris 10 11/06 included Solaris Trusted Extensions, which give it the remaining capabilities needed to make it the functional successor to Trusted Solaris.
After the release of Solaris 10, the Solaris source code was opened under theCDDLfree software license and developed in open with contributingOpensolaris community throughSXCE that usedSVR4.pkg packaging and supportedOpenSolaris releases that usedIPS.Following the acquisition of Sun by Oracle, OpenSolaris continued to develop in open underillumos withillumos distributions.
Oracle Corporation continued to develop Solaris, reverting new development back to theproprietary licensing; its next release wasOracle Solaris 11 in November 2011.
The Java platform was developed at Sun byJames Gosling in the early 1990s with the objective of allowing programs to function regardless of the device they were used on, sparking the slogan "Write once, run anywhere" (WORA). While this objective was not entirely achieved (prompting the riposte "Write once, debug everywhere"), Java is regarded as being largely hardware—and operating system—independent.
Java was initially promoted as a platform for client-sideapplets running inside web browsers. Early examples of Java applications were theHotJavaweb browser and theHotJava Views suite. However, since then Java has been more successful on theserver side of the Internet.
Java is anobject-oriented programming language. Since its introduction in late 1995, it became one of the world's most popular programming languages.[98]
Java programs are compiled tobyte code, which can be executed by any JVM, regardless of the environment.
The JavaAPIs provide an extensive set of library routines. These APIs evolved into theStandard Edition (Java SE), which provides basic infrastructure and GUI functionality; theEnterprise Edition (Java EE), aimed at large software companies implementing enterprise-class application servers; and theMicro Edition (Java ME), used to build software for devices with limited resources, such as mobile devices.
On November 13, 2006, Sun announced it would be licensing its Java implementation under theGNU General Public License; it released itsJava compiler and JVM at that time.[99]
In February 2009, Sun entered a battle with Microsoft and Adobe Systems, which promoted rival platforms to build software applications for the Internet.[100]JavaFX was a development platform for music, video and other applications that builds on the Java programming language.[100]
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.[101] 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 theOpenDocument format.
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 likeDynamic System Domains andDynamic Reconfiguration were specifically designed for high-end SPARC servers, andLogical Domains only supports the UltraSPARC T1/T2/T2 Plus server platforms. Sun marketedSun Ops Center provisioning software for datacenter automation.
On the client side, Sun offeredvirtual 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 includedSun Ray Server Software,Sun Secure Global Desktop andSun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.
Sun acquired MySQL AB, the developer of theMySQL database in 2008 for US$1 billion.[102] CEOJonathan Schwartz mentioned in his blog that optimizing the performance of MySQL was one of the priorities of the acquisition.[103] In February 2008, Sun began to publish results of the MySQL performance optimization work.[104] Sun contributed to thePostgreSQL project. On the Java platform, Sun contributed to and supportedJava DB.
Sun offered other software products for software development and infrastructure services. Many were developed in house; others came from acquisitions, including Tarantella, Waveset Technologies,[63] SeeBeyond, and Vaau. Sun acquired many of theNetscape non-browser software products as part a deal involving Netscape's merger withAOL.[105] 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 theJava Enterprise System (JES), and marketed for web and application serving, communication, calendaring, directory, identity management andservice-oriented architecture. Sun'sOpen 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 theSolaris Cluster high availability software, and a grid management package calledSun Grid Engine and firewall software such as SunScreen.ForNetwork Equipment Providers and telecommunications customers, Sun developed the Sun Netra High-Availability Suite.
Sun produced compilers and development tools under theSun Studio brand, for building and developing Solaris and Linux applications.Sun entered thesoftware as a service (SaaS) market withzembly, a social cloud-basedcomputing platform and Project Kenai, an open-source project hosting service.
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 purchaseStorage 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 theSun 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.[106]
Sun announced theSun 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 byZFS to take advantage of the speed of SSDs and the economy of conventional hard disks.[107]
Other storage products included Sun Fire X4500 storage server and SAM-QFS filesystem and storage management software.
Sun marketed theSun Constellation System forhigh-performance computing (HPC). Even before the introduction of the Sun Constellation System in 2007, Sun's products were in use in many of theTOP500 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 (includingBP,Shell, andExxonMobil), chip-design (includingSynopsys andSony), and the movie-industry (includingHarry Potter andSpider-Man).[108]
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
TheSun HPC ClusterTools product was a set ofMessage 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 toOpen MPI, and donated engineering resources to the Open MPI project.
Sun was a participant in theOpenMP language committee. Sun Studio compilers and tools implemented the OpenMP specification for shared memory parallelization.
In 2006, Sun built theTSUBAME supercomputer, which was until June 2008 the fastest supercomputer in Asia. Sun builtRanger at theTexas 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.[109]
In 2005, Sun Microsystems was one of the firstFortune 500 companies that instituted a formalsocial media program.[110] Sun staff published articles on the company's blog site.[111] 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.[112][113]
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