Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems was an American information technology company engaged in the development and sale of workstations, servers, and related hardware and software products. The company is renowned for creating and promoting the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, and the SPARC processor architecture, and had a profound influence on open-source software and network computing. Founded in 1982 in California, USA, the company was acquired and integrated by Oracle Corporation in 2010.
Core Facts
The word "hackathon" is a portmanteau of "hack" and "marathon," tracing back to a cryptography programming event held by OpenBSD developers in 1999 and a similar event organized by Sun Microsystems that same year to promote Java technology.
Java was launched by Sun Microsystems in 1995
ZFS was originally developed by Sun Microsystems in 2001 for Solaris and was later ported to Linux and BSD platforms through the OpenZFS project.
Timeline (last 90 days)
J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition) is a Java mobile platform specification introduced by Sun Microsystems in 1999, designed specifically for feature phones with strictly limited memory and computing power.
Sun Microsystems incubated technologies including Java, NFS, ZFS, and DTrace.
Sun Microsystems proposed the slogan "The Network is the Computer."
Sun Microsystems was ultimately acquired by Oracle.
Bryan Cantrill once worked at Sun and is one of the co-authors of DTrace; he wrote the article "What Sun got wrong."
SPARC is a RISC-architecture processor independently developed by Sun, and Solaris is the proprietary Unix operating system built on top of it.
The x86 architecture, led by Intel and paired with the rise of Linux, allowed any vendor to manufacture compatible servers at lower cost, fundamentally undermining Sun's pricing power.
Sun once open-sourced Solaris (OpenSolaris) and Java, and acquired and promoted the development of MySQL.
When Sun open-sourced OpenSolaris and Java, it did not simultaneously build a replicable service subscription system, and its revenue remained highly dependent on hardware sales.
IBM mainframes and DEC minicomputers both experienced a decline similar to Sun's, caused by the disruptive impact of standardization and commoditization.
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The word "hackathon" is a portmanteau of "hack" and "marathon," tracing back to a cryptography programming event held by OpenBSD developers in 1999 and a similar event organized by Sun Microsystems that same year to promote Java technology.
75%VerifiedJava was launched by Sun Microsystems in 1995
70%VerifiedZFS was originally developed by Sun Microsystems in 2001 for Solaris and was later ported to Linux and BSD platforms through the OpenZFS project.
65%Unverified早在上世纪90年代，Sun Microsystems、SGI等公司就开始向员工和开发者分发印有Logo的T恤和贴纸
75%UnverifiedSun Microsystems将Java捐赠给Eclipse基金会，Facebook将React框架开源并交由社区维护，Google将Kubernetes捐赠给CNCF
70%UnverifiedSun Microsystems was founded in 1982.
60%Unverified2009年Oracle以74亿美元收购了Sun Microsystems
60%UnverifiedJ2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition) is a Java mobile platform specification introduced by Sun Microsystems in 1999, designed specifically for feature phones with strictly limited memory and computing power.
50%UnverifiedIBM mainframes and DEC minicomputers both experienced a decline similar to Sun's, caused by the disruptive impact of standardization and commoditization.
50%UnverifiedSun Microsystems proposed the slogan "The Network is the Computer."
50%UnverifiedSun Microsystems was ultimately acquired by Oracle.
50%UnverifiedBryan Cantrill once worked at Sun and is one of the co-authors of DTrace; he wrote the article "What Sun got wrong."
50%UnverifiedSPARC is a RISC-architecture processor independently developed by Sun, and Solaris is the proprietary Unix operating system built on top of it.
50%UnverifiedThe x86 architecture, led by Intel and paired with the rise of Linux, allowed any vendor to manufacture compatible servers at lower cost, fundamentally undermining Sun's pricing power.
50%UnverifiedSun once open-sourced Solaris (OpenSolaris) and Java, and acquired and promoted the development of MySQL.
50%UnverifiedWhen Sun open-sourced OpenSolaris and Java, it did not simultaneously build a replicable service subscription system, and its revenue remained highly dependent on hardware sales.
50%UnverifiedThe core argument of the article holds that Sun was too obsessed with its own sense of technological superiority and neglected the structural shift of the industry toward standardization and openness.
50%UnverifiedSun Microsystems incubated technologies including Java, NFS, ZFS, and DTrace.
50%UnverifiedZFS was originally open-sourced by Sun Microsystems under the CDDL license, which is disputed as incompatible with the Linux kernel's GPLv2, preventing it from being merged directly into the kernel source tree.
50%UnverifiedZFS was developed by Sun Microsystems and later acquired by Oracle; its core features include copy-on-write, data integrity verification, snapshots and clones, and the built-in RAID feature RAIDZ.
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