Over 1, former Sun employees reunited for an evening to re-connect and to reminisce. The days that followed found Sun employees sharing nostalgic memories online and expressing their feelings of geek camaraderie, both past and present.
But the reunion also offered a chance for Scott McNealy , along with everybody else, to reflect on what it all had meant. And how do you measure the legacy that a technology company — and its workers — are leaving behind? So how was the reunion?
People were just laughing, having a great time catching up, reminiscing, remembering. He cites the example of Adam Osborne. There are many others that are just footnotes in the industry. Hanging out with the founders of Sun Microsystems, an amazing company that gave a lot to tech. McNealy remains proud of everything Sun accomplished, and later in the evening shared some of his feelings with his former employees.
We did it 30 years ago without even thinking about it. We were light years ahead of our time. Sun was always way too early, whether it was doing cloud computing or open source or whatever.
In the year , first version of java was launched named as "OAK"; it was renamed as java later. Sun received high amount of popularity with the development of this language as java is widely used since then and is one of the best languages available. Oracle Corporation acquired Sun in Later that year Sun fired thousands of its employees complaining about delays. Sun was fully acquired by Oracle in January In February Sun's California campus was sold. All later Sun campuses came under story.
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History The first design of Sun workstation i. Hardware In the initial decade of Sun's discovery it was a low cost hardware product vendor. It used several different hardware based systems: Motorola based system: Sun used Motorola family processors. Sun 1 used , Sun 2 used and Sun 3 used Sun's use of standard hardware components and standard operating system software produced short-term payoffs for the fledgling company.
Sun's workstations, unlike those of industry pioneer Apollo, operated on UNIX and from the outset networked easily with the hardware and software already on the market. In addition, although Sun's design could easily be copied, the strategy of using existing technologies allowed Sun to enter the market quickly with a low-priced machine.
Sales grew rapidly as a result. Within six months of incorporation the company became profitable. Sun's founders, however, had their eyes on the mainstream technical market, dominated at that time by the major computer companies. Sun's first big success in this area was the contract it signed in its second year with ComputerVision, a major CAD computer-aided design systems supplier that had decided to drop its proprietary hardware in favor of a new platform for its software products.
ComputerVision had decided to sign a contract with Apollo, but, aggressively courted by Sun executives, the company reversed its decision and accepted a counteroffer made by Sun. Thus, Sun established its reputation as a serious player in the computer business and simultaneously earned the envious wrath of its competitors. Expanding rapidly, Sun moved out of its original location in Santa Clara to a larger building in Mountain View, which became its new headquarters.
In January Sun opened its first European sales office. In that same year Sun established a subsidiary, Sun Federal, to serve the government market. By Sun Federal was shipping more than half the workstations ordered by local, state, and federal government. Sun's informal corporate culture attracted engineers from the top universities. At the same time Sun hired additional managers who had experience working at other leading computer companies.
Also in McNealy took over as president, as Khosla realized his dream of being able to retire as a millionaire before the age of During this period Sun continued to promote open systems.
In it began broadly licensing Joy's design of a distributed file system software, called NFS Network File System , that allowed data to be shared among many users in a network regardless of processor type, operating system, or communications system.
NFS soon became an industry standard. Sun was so successful with this strategy that in Apollo was forced to abandon its exclusive design and instead produce a system that operated with standard software. Between and Sun was the fastest-growing company in the United States, according to Forbes magazine, with a compound annual growth rate of percent. It had become a public company with its successful initial public offering in The following year Sun surpassed Apollo in sales, and by the close of that year it had become the leader in workstation sales.
Part of the reason for Sun's stupendous early success was the fact that the product in which it chose to specialize, the workstation, was becoming popular just at the time Sun entered the market. Furthermore, because it was a workstation industry pioneer, it established strong relations with the most sought-after clients and the most important software developers.
Sun's corporate strategy also enabled it to offer its new customers the latest technology, while its competitors had to support established clients reluctant to scrap their outdated computer systems. Industrywide, sales of workstations rapidly displaced those of minicomputers, and the large computer companies that sold these had to compensate by offering workstations as well.
In the increasingly competitive market for workstations, where the speed of the computer is an important factor, Sun developed an even faster workstation in the late s. Based on a different kind of microprocessor, this new product utilized RISC reduced instruction set computing architecture. SPARCstation 1 employed new levels of integration and miniaturized the essential electronic components.
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