Sun Microsystems, Inc. ( ) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California (part of Silicon Valley), on the former west campus of the Agnews Developmental Center.
Products include computer servers and workstations based on its own SPARC processors as well as AMD's Opteron and Intel's Xeon processors; storage systems; and, a suite of software products including the Solaris Operating System, developer tools, Web infrastructure software, and identity management applications. Other technologies of note include the Java platform and NFS.
Sun is a proponent of open systems in general and UNIX in particular and a major contributor of open source software.
Sun's manufacturing facilities are located in Hillsboro, Oregon and Linlithgow, Scotland.
