  sun microsystems, inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services and that created the java programming language and the network file system (nfs). sun significantly evolved several key computing technologies, among them unix, risc processors, thin client computing, and virtualized computing. sun was founded on february 24, 1982. at its height, sun headquarters were in santa clara, california (part of silicon valley), on the former west campus of the agnews developmental center. on january 27, 2010, sun was acquired by oracle corporation for us $7.4&nbsp;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. sun products included computer servers and workstations built on its own [[reduced instruction set computi
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