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Andreas Bechtolsheim created the Sun computer which was popular with scientists and engineers.
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Stanford M.B.A. gradulates Vinod Khoshu and Scott McNealy were interested in the Sun computer. They were named president and director of manufacturing for Sun Microsystems Inc.
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Moved from Santa Clara, CA to a large building in Mountain View, CA and this was officially their new headquarters.
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Opened European sales office.
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Sun went public on the Stock Market
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Sun signed an agreement with AT&T to develop UNIX.
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Produced SPARCstation 1 which was a low-cost desktop and by the end of the year, they were the world's largest supplier.
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Sun's stock doubled $14-$37.
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Sun became a hybrid software company along with IBM and Apple.
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Sun was faced with the hard task of maintaining their amazing success through their first ten years as a company.
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Sun produced the first multiprocessor the SPARCserver 600 NO.
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Sun had 21 subsidiaries around the world in sales, service, technical support, overseas sales, and became the first U.S. company to have a strong presence in Russia.
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Introduced Java which is a programming language that allows users to write software across any computer and operating system.
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Sun's revenue increased to $10 billion and net income doubled since the doubling from $763 million in the mid-1990s.
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Sun signed a Java license agreement with ten major company such as Sony Motorola, Samsung etc.
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Oracle Corporation bought Sun Microsystems Inc. for $7.4 billion
