In April 2009, Oracle Corp. made what at the time looked like a bad deal. Or at least that was the conventional wisdom. It announced that it was buying Sun Microsystems Inc. for $7.4 billion, or $5.6 ...

Even Sun Microsystems Had Its Roots at Xerox PARC Most in the tech industry know how Apple and Microsoft owe (at least) inspiration to the famed research laboratory. Not many know that Sun, once one ...

The 30th anniversary of Java, which the Java community is celebrating this year, offers a perfect opportunity to reflect on the remarkable changes the ecosystem has undergone. In this article, I aim ...

Languages such as Python and Rust get a lot of new attention these days, but Java is still going strong after three decades. With Java’s 30th birthday two months away, Scott McNealy, former CEO of ...

Scott McNealy’s net worth in 2025 reflects his lasting influence in the tech industry and beyond. As a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, he played a pivotal role in shaping modern computing, pioneering ...

“Hard for me to support someone with no values, lies, cheats, rapes, demeans women, hates immigrants like me,” Khosla replied. “He may cut my taxes or reduce some regulation but that is no reason to ...

The IT industry modernizes the rest of the economy, and IT itself undergoes endless modification. Still, some things stay constant in this environment: Java continues to be the fundamental coding ...

Andy Bechtolsheim, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems and Arista Networks, has reached a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on insider trading charges that will cost him ...

It’s different this time: The two-syllable mantra that has echoed across every boardroom and C-suite this year, whipped investors into a frenzy and sent businesses chasing their own is going to make ...

The solar energy company SunPower has tapped Eileen Evans, a former senior attorney at HP and Sun Microsystems, to serve as chief legal officer. Evans comes to Silicon Valley-based SunPower from ...