Sun Microsystems

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Sun Microsystems, Inc.

logo
legal form Incorporated
founding February 24, 1982
resolution January 27, 2010
Reason for dissolution Merger with Oracle Corporation
Seat Santa Clara , United States
management Dorian Daley, President & CEO
Number of employees approx. 29,000 (2009)
sales $ 11.449 billion (2009)
Branch Software, hardware
Website www.oracle.com

The Sun Microsystems, Inc. [ ˌsʌn maɪkɹoʊˌsɪstəmz ] was a manufacturer of computers and software , which in 2010 through acquisition in the Oracle Corporation was incorporated. Spin-off from Stanford University in 1982, Sun was an independent company until then and based in Santa Clara , California . The company initially focused on the development and manufacture of Unix - workstations , a wider public was there mainly by the development of the end of the 1990s, Java technology and the programming of the same name known.

history

Sun Microsystems at the Linuxtag 2004 in Karlsruhe

Sun was founded on February 24, 1982 by the German Andreas von Bechtolsheim and the Americans Bill Joy , Vinod Khosla and Scott McNealy , but the company was not officially registered until May 16. The name derives from Sun S Tanford U niversity N etwork from, a former project to network the library computer at the Stanford University .

In 1984 Sun developed a network file system called NFS . This was placed under an open source license, which made it a great success in the Unix world and is still very important today. Other projects for the Unix area such as NeWS , conceived as an alternative to the X Window System , had among other things. a. Hardly any success due to the non-public source code.

The early computers of the Sun-1 , Sun2 and Sun3 series were equipped with processors from the 68000 family from Motorola (CISC-CPU) and ran under the SunOS operating system , a BSD-4.3 derivative. With the Sun SPARC processor developed Sun a very powerful RISC - CPU for their own workstations and servers Sun 4 -series, on which the operating systems SunOS and later Solaris running.

With Java , Sun created an object-oriented, system-independent programming platform in 1995, which quickly found widespread support.

In 1999, Sun bought the Star Division company with the StarOffice office suite , which was released under a free license ( LGPL ) as OpenOffice.org in 2000 and was quickly adopted by developers from the open source community. In May 2005, Sun acquired the software company Tarantella . In April 2006, Sun Germany completed the acquisitions of StorageTek and SeeBeyond . On April 24, 2006, the company announced in a press release that the previous CEO Scott McNealy would be replaced by Jonathan I. Schwartz , who had joined Sun after the 1996 acquisition of Lighthouse Design .

At the beginning of 2008, Sun took over the company MySQL AB , which until then had developed the open source database MySQL and marketed it commercially, for around one billion dollars . Innotek, the manufacturer of the virtualization solution VirtualBox , followed shortly afterwards .

According to a report in The Wall Street Journal , IBM planned to take over Sun Microsystems for 6.5 billion US dollars, but negotiations failed.

Economic crisis and takeover

Sun logo before the takeover by Oracle

On April 20, 2009, Oracle announced the acquisition of Sun Microsystems for $ 7.4 billion. On August 20, 2009, Oracle announced that it had received approval to acquire Sun Microsystems. The US Department of Justice approved the information reportedly the takeover by Oracle without restrictions . After an initial review, the EU Commission announced on November 10, 2009 that it saw competition law problems in the database market. She therefore expressed concerns about the takeover of Sun Microsystems by Oracle. In January 2010, the EU Commission approved the takeover without any conditions. The world market leader for commercial databases, Oracle, took over the leading provider of open source databases (MySQL) and Java. As a direct effect of the acquisition, numerous open source projects have turned away from Oracle.

For the fiscal year ended in June 2009 Sun had to post a loss of 2.2 billion dollars. Previously, within three years, 7,600 jobs had been cut, and a further 3,000 layoffs were planned, which should also affect European branches.

Products

computer

Model series (extract):

year designation processor Clocking power operating system Remarks
1982 Sun 1 Motorola 68000 6 MHz Unisoft V7 UNIX
1983 Sun 2 Motorola 68010 10 MHz SunOS  1.0 to 4.0.3
1986 Sun 3/50 Motorola 68020 15.7 MHz 1.5  MIPS SunOS 3.0 to 4.1.1_U1
1987 Sun 3/60 20 MHz 3.0 MIPS
1988 Sun386i / 150 "Roadrunner" Intel 80386 SunOS 4.0 to 4.0.3
Sun386i / 250 "Roadrunner" 25 MHz
1989 Sun 4/60 " SPARCstation 1" Sun SPARC 20 MHz 1.4 mflops SunOS 4.0.3c to Solaris  7
Sun 4/40 "SPARCstation IPC" 25 MHz 1.7 mflops SunOS 4.0.3 to Solaris 7
1990 Sun 4/20 "SPARCstation SLC" 20 MHz 1.2 mflops
Sun 4/65 "SPARCstation 1+" 25 MHz 1.7 mflops
Sun 4/75 "SPARCstation 2" 40 MHz 4.0 mflops SunOS 4.1.1 to Solaris 7
1991 Sun 4/25 "SPARCstation ELC" 33 MHz 3.3 mflops
Sun 4/50 "SPARCstation IPX" 40 MHz 4.1 mflops
Sun 4/80 "SPARCstation 10" Sun SuperSPARC 50 MHz 7.0 mflops SunOS 4.1.3 to Solaris 9 32-512 MB RAM
Sun 4/670 "SPARCserver 670MP" Cypress CY7C601 (4 ×) 40 MHz 16.8 Mflops or 28.9 MIPS SunOS 4.1.2 to Solaris 2.5.1
1992 Sun 4/15 "SPARCclassic" Sun microSPARC 50 MHz 4.6 mflops SunOS 4.1.3c to Solaris 9 16-96 MB RAM
1993 SPARCstation 5 Sun microSPARCII 110 MHz 23 mflops SunOS 4.1.3_U1B to Solaris 9
1994 SPARCstation 20 Sun hyperSPARC 150 MHz 84 mflops
SPARCultra1 Sun ultraSPARC 167 MHz 101 mflops Solaris 2.5
1997 SPARCultra5 Sun ultraSPARCIIi 270 MHz 114 mflops Solaris 2.5.1HW1297
1998 SPARCultra10 333 MHz 253 mflops
2001 Sun Blade 1000 Model 1900 UltraSPARC III 900 MHz 467  SPECint2000 Solaris 8 update 2
2003 Sun Blade 2000 UltraSPARC III Cu 1.2 GHz 722 SPECint2000 Solaris 9 12/02
2004 Sun Fire V440 UltraSPARC IIIi 1.6 GHz 743 SPECint2000 Solaris 10
Sun Fire V20z / V40z AMD Opteron x86-64 2.4 GHz 1521 SPECint2000
2005 Sun Fire X4200 2.8 GHz 1829 SPECint2000 Solaris 10 3/05 HW1
Sun Fire E25k UltraSPARC IV + (max. 72 ×) 1.5 GHz 1644 SPECint_rate2000 Solaris 8 to 10 Max. 576 GB of RAM
2006 Sun Fire X4600 AMD Opteron 885 x86-64 (dual core, max. 8 ×) 2.6 GHz 279 SPECint_rate2006 Solaris 10 Max. 32 GB RAM
2007 Sun Ultra 24 Intel Core 2 Duo / Quad Max. 8 GB of RAM
2008 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 UltraSPARC-T2 +, 4 chips, 8 cores each, a total of 256 threads 1.4 GHz 301 SPECint_rate2006 Max. 512 GB RAM
2009 Sun Fire X4640 AMD Opteron (Istanbul) x86-64 (max. 8 CPUs, 6 cores each) 2.6 GHz 6,050 SAP SD Benchmark users

Further products

Special licenses

additional

  • The Sun Microsystems logo is designed as an ambigram .

Web links

Commons : Sun Microsystems  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Annual Reports , sun.com
  2. ↑ Corporate News "Oracle and Sun" , oracle.com, accessed May 13, 2010
  3. ↑ Blog post on the acquisition of MySQL AB , linux.com
  4. ↑ Sun takes over VirtualBox manufacturer Innotek , heise.de
  5. ↑ IBM in Talks to Buy Sun in Bid to Add to Web , online.wsj.com, issue of March 18, 2009
  6. ↑ www.sun.com: [1]
  7. ↑ UPDATE 1-Oracle wins US approval to buy Sun Microsystems , Reuters August 20, 2009, accessed August 28, 2009
  8. ↑ USA gives Oracle green light for Sun acquisition , Reuters Germany August 21, 2009, accessed August 28, 2009
  9. ↑ Brussels against Sun takeover by Oracle ( Memento of November 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Zeit Online, November 10, 2009
  10. ↑ EU Commission: Oracle may take over Sun , stern.de
  11. ↑ Approval by the EU Commission - Oracle may take over Sun , spiegel.de, accessed on January 21, 2010
  12. ↑ Roundup: Oracle is allowed to swallow Sun - large merger , finanznachrichten.de
  13. ↑ Markus Franz: Oracle: No more future for free software? In: netzwelt . Netzwelt GmbH, accessed on October 15, 2015 .
  14. ^ Losses: Sun announces 3,000 redundancies . In: Spiegel Online . October 21, 2009 ( spiegel.de [accessed October 15, 2015]).

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