Sun Microsystems: 27 Years of Innovation

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UltraSPARC T1 processor Sun launches
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Sun's initial ever is open-sourced Open Cloud
public stock Platform
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Sun Enterprise 10000 Sun acquires StorageTek Sun Unveils
Sun reaches server introduced, with and becomes fourth JavaFX
$1 billion in revenue processing power largest storage provider.
equivalent to four 64-bit Solaris 7 OS
Scott McNealy mainframes
named CEO and Java 2 Platform Sun partners with
Sun founded by introduced Sun and HP sign
Intel to deliver x64 landmark Solaris
Scott McNealy, systems
Bill Joy, Vinod Khosla, agreement
and Andy Bechtolsheim World's largest data
on February 24 warehouse created Solaris 10 OS
Sun connects from Sun-tested
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64-bit Ultra The Java
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NFS technology © Sun acquires
SPARC station 1 SPARC
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technology MySQL
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Sun Ray ultra-thin Jonathan Schwartz
processor unveiled Java technology named CEO
license free to introduced
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Solaris 2 client introduced
First workstation enables internet
introduced-built using the industry. © OS unveiled
SPARC architecture users to be “virtual Sun open sources its
off-the-shelf parts + introduced participants” in UltraSPARC III chip
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UNIX + TCP/IP software portfolio and Sun and Dell
NASA's mission 21,000+ developers debutsTM in new Sun Sun partners with donates 1600 patents
to Mars strike landmark
attend the JavaOne Blade and AMD to deliver to the open source
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Conference Sun Fire systems x64 systems community

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