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The rise and fall of Sun Microsystems

Sun was a tech juggernaut for nearly three decades. Our memorial slideshow gives this former titan its due

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In memoriam: Sun Microsystems
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Present at the creation (1982)
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Not a pizza box (1982)
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The network is the computer (1984)
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Sparc: Making RISC commercially successful (1989)
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Solaris rising (1991)
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Java takes the stage (1995)
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Sun sues Microsoft (1997)
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"We put the dot in dot com" (1999-2001)
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Every which way but up (2002-2004)
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Andy Bechtolsheim returns (2004)
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Schwartz takes the throne (2006)
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Sun buys MySQL (2008)
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Oracle buys Sun

In memoriam: Sun Microsystems

On the cusp of Sun's $7.4 billion acquisition by Oracle, InfoWorld looks back at the company's auspicious beginnings and rocky life span.

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April 24, 2009

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