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      • Oracle announced Wednesday it completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems in a deal valued at more than $7 billion, a move that transforms the database and business-software giant into a hardware company as well.
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  2. Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun for short) was an American technology 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.

  3. Apr 24, 2009 · Dot-com bust, failure to embrace x86 processors ended Sun’s life as an independent company, analysts say. There are many reasons Sun wasn’t able to survive as an independent company. Chief ...

  4. Mar 1, 2011 · After establishing the Java Community Process, where the votes of many small companies -- Instantiations, Bluestone, BEA Systems, Borland, JBoss -- could offset IBM, Oracle, and HP, Sun Microsystems realized it had missed a major opportunity and waded back into tools, a burgeoning field.

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  5. May 30, 2014 · Sun Microsystems—born in 1982, gone public in 1986, struggling in the 2000s, and absorbed by Oracle in 2010—left its mark on Silicon Valley and the world. In Sun’s wake are 235 000 people who can count themselves as former employees.

  6. Dec 7, 2023 · What happened to Sun Microsystems is a story of innovation, growth, and eventual acquisition. The company, once a leader in technology with contributions like Java programming language, SPARC processors, and OpenSolaris, faced mounting pressures.

  7. On April 20, 2009, Sun and Oracle announced that they had entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle would acquire Sun for $9.50 a share in cash. Net of Sun's cash and debt, this amounted to a $5.6 billion offer from Oracle.

  8. Apr 20, 2009 · Updated: Oracle said Monday that it will buy Sun Microsystems for $9.50 a share in cash, or about $5.6 billion excluding debt, in a deal that plunges Larry Ellison & Co. into the hardware...

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