Overview#

Sun Microsystems was an American Information Technology company that was founded on February 24, 1982 and was acquired by Oracle Corporation on January 27, 2010Sun Microsystems sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris Operating System, ZFS, the Network File System (NFS), and SPARC microprocessors. Sun Microsystems contributed significantly to the evolution of several key computing technologies, among them Unix, RISC processors, thin client computing, and virtualized computing.

Sun Microsystems was acquired by Oracle Corporation for $7.4 billion, based on an agreement signed on April 20, 2009. The following month, Sun Microsystems, Inc. was merged with Oracle USA, Inc. to become Oracle America Inc.[1]

Sun Microsystems has an Private Enterprise Number OID assigned prefix 1.3.6.1.4.1.42

Sun Microsystems has an Private Enterprise Number OID assigned prefix 1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.27 described as Sun's LDAP branch".

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[#1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems