Sun Microsystems Logo — Sun Microsystems was a company computer that was selling computers, computer components, software and services. It was acquired in 2009 by Oracle Corporation , formerly part of Silicon Valley , manufacturer of semiconductors and software .
It was established in 1982 by German Andreas von Bechtolsheim and Americans Vinod Khosla , Bill Joy , Scott McNealy and Marcel Newman . The letters are derived from SUN ‘ S Tanford U niversity N etwork “, a project created to network the libraries of Stanford University . In that year introduced to the market its first workstation since its inception worked with the protocol TCP / IP , which governs the most of traffic Internet . More