A company based in Mountain View, California that builds computer
hardware and
software. Sun Microsystems was founded in 1982 by Andreas Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla, and Scott McNeally. The firm is best known for developing
workstations and operating environments for the
UNIX operation system, and more recently, for developing and promoting the
Java programming language.
Sun products include SPARC workstations and the Solaris operating environment.