The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

    One of the first, and now biggest, US computer
   manufacturers.  They also manufacture in Europe.  The Sun-2
   and 3 series of workstations and servers were based on the
   Motorola 680x0 family of microprocessors and the Sun-4
   series on the SPARC.  Sun also produce their own version of
   Unix, originally called SunOS and now Solaris.  Their
   Network File System has become the de facto standard for
   sharing files between Unix systems.

   Sun own MySQL AB.  Sun was bought by Oracle Corporation on
   2009-04-20.

   Quarterly sales $1403M, profits $78M (Aug 1994).

   (http://sun.com/).  Sun World Online
   (http://sun.com/sunworldonline/).

   Address: 2550 Garcia Ave., Mt. View, CA 94043 -1100 USA.

   (1995-10-14)