Sun Microsystems is a multinational vendor of computers, computer software and hardware, and information technology services. Sun is a proponent of open systems in general and UNIX in particular and a major contributor of open source software.

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Acquired by Oracle Corporation for $7.4B. (4/20/09)
Posted 4/20/09 at 7:36am
Acquired Q-Layer. (1/7/09)
Posted 1/7/09 at 12:06pm
Sun Microsystems — NBC selects Sun to power live streaming of Olympic Games (7/14/08)
Posted 7/14/08 at 11:15am
Acquired Montalvo Systems. (5/2/08)
Posted 7/8/09 at 3:38pm
Acquired Innotek. (2/20/08)
Posted 1/19/09 at 2:04am
Invested in Infobright. (2008)
Posted 3/23/09 at 12:54pm
Invested in Greenplum Software. (1/1/08)
Posted 1/23/08 at 1:29am
Acquired MySQL for $1B. (1/1/08)
Posted 1/16/08 at 9:25pm
Acquired NetBeans. (10/99)
Posted 4/21/09 at 11:38am
John Doerr, Board added.
Posted 2/22/08 at 1:52am
Ian Murdock, VP of Developer and Community Marketing added.
Posted 6/30/08 at 10:38am
John Gage, Chief Researcher and Director of the Science Office added.
Posted 6/9/08 at 5:53pm
Patrick Chanezon, Software Architect added.
Posted 5/21/08 at 9:48am
Scott Metcalf, Senior MySQL Account Manager added.
Posted 5/2/08 at 9:44am
Kyle MacDonald, Web 2.0 added.
Posted 4/8/08 at 7:58am
Paul De Decker, Managing Director Belgium and Luxembourg added.
Posted 3/30/08 at 12:52pm
Amlan Chatterjee, Sr. Member Technical Staff added.
Posted 2/25/08 at 7:32pm
Zack Urlocker, VP of the Database Group added.
Posted 6/30/08 at 12:51pm
Andy Bechtolsheim, Co-founder added.
Posted 8/18/07 at 12:58am
Rich Green, Executive VP, Software added.
Posted 8/18/07 at 12:57am
John Fowler, Executive VP, Systems added.
Posted 8/18/07 at 12:57am
Michael Lehman, CFO, EVP of Corporate Resources added.
Posted 8/18/07 at 12:56am
Greg Papadopoulos, CTO added.
Posted 8/18/07 at 12:55am
Scott McNealy, Board added.
Posted 8/18/07 at 12:54am
Jonathan Schwartz, CEO & President added.
Posted 8/18/07 at 12:53am
Michael Silverton, Telco Business Plan Writer added.
Posted 7/20/08 at 8:10am
Zack Urlocker, VP Database products added.
Posted 12/17/08 at 6:03pm
Went public with stock symbol Java.
Posted 5/21/08 at 3:44pm
Eric Faller, Software Engineer added.
Posted 1/27/09 at 10:02pm
Lew Tucker, Vice President and CTO, Sun Cloud Computing added.
Posted 2/3/09 at 4:18pm
Arthur van Hoff, Senior Staff Engineer, Java team added.
Posted 2/23/09 at 12:14am
George T. Haber, Project mannager added.
Posted 4/24/09 at 11:49am
Vinod Khosla, CEO added.
Posted 5/20/09 at 1:47pm
Sherrick Murdoff, Sr. Product Manager added.
Posted 7/6/09 at 7:50am
Juan M. Mogollon, Sr. Director, Global Field Marketing added.
Posted 10/6/09 at 5:51pm