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Category | Chipset | |
Device driver for | VirtualBox Device | |
Release date | 9-9-2009 | |
Windows version | Windows XP (5.1) 32 bit | |
Manufacturer | Sun Microsystems, Inc. | |
Version | 3.0.6.0 | Download |
Name | Sun Microsystems |
Founded | 1982|02|24 |
Location City | Menlo Park, California |
Location Country | U.S. |
Industry | Plainlist |
Number of employees | 38,600 (near peak, 2006) |
Owner | Oracle Corporation |
Sun Microsystems, Inc. Sun for short) was an American company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the Network File System (NFS), and SPARC microprocessors. Sun contributed significantly to the evolution of several key computing technologies, among them Unix, RISC processors, thin client computing, and virtualized computing. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982. At its height, the Sun headquarters were in Santa Clara, California (part of Silicon Valley), on the former west campus of the Agnews Developmental Center. On April 20, 2009, it was announced that Oracle Corporation would acquire Sun for usd 7.4 billion. The deal was completed on January 27, 2010. Sun products included computer servers and workstations built on its own RISC-based SPARC processor architecture, as well as on x86-based AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon processors. Sun also developed its own storage systems and a suite of software products, including the Solaris operating system, developer tools, Web infrastructure software, and identity management applications. Technologies included the Java platform and NFS. In general, Sun was a proponent of open systems, particularly Unix. It was also a major contributor to open-source software, as evidenced by its $1 billion purchase, in 2008, of MySQL, an open-source relational database management system. At various times, Sun had manufacturing facilities in several locations worldwide, including Newark, California; Hillsboro, Oregon; and Linlithgow, Scotland. However, by the time the company was acquired by Oracle, it had outsourced most manufacturing responsibilities.