Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA)[3] is a multinational vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information technology services, founded on February 24, 1982.[4] The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California (part of Silicon Valley), on the former west campus of the Agnews Developmental Center.
Products include computer servers and workstations based on its own SPARC processors as well as AMD's Opteron and Intel's Xeon processors; storage systems; and, a suite of software products including the Solaris operating system, developer tools, Web infrastructure software, and identity management applications. Other technologies of note include the Java platform, MySQL and NFS. Sun is a proponent of open systems in general and Unix in particular, and a major contributor to open source software.[5]
On April 20, 2009, Sun and Oracle Corporation announced that they entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun for $7.4 billion.[6][7] Sun shareholders approved the acquisition on July 16, 2009. As of October 2009[update] the acquisition is pending regulatory approval.[8]
Sun's manufacturing facilities are located in Hillsboro, Oregon, USA and Linlithgow, Scotland
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