Incorporated in February 1982, with four employees.

First workstation introduced. It includes TCP/IP, now known as the Internet protocol suite.

Sun and Computervision sign a $40 million OEM agreement.

Operations begin in Europe.

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Sun opens Canadian operations.

Sun has a wildly successful initial public stock offering.

Sun begins operations in Asia and Australia.

Sun takes lead in workstation market.

Sun connects to Internet.

"Words fail to describe how successful Sun has been. For a company to grow at that rate is just incredible."

- Robert Herwick, Hambrecht & Quist

Sun's expanded alliances with Informix, Ingres, Oracle, and Sybase set the stage for our emergence as the number one database platform.

Sun opens research and development center in France.

Sun becomes an executive member of the independent, open standards organization, SPARC International, Inc.

Manufacturing plant opens in Scotland.

More than half a million systems shipped to date.

Sun unveils Solaris 2 operating environment, specially tuned for symetric multiprocessing.

Operations begin in Latin America.

Sun's name appears on Standard & Poor's 500.

Sun ships more multiprocessing UNIX servers in a single year than any other vendor shipped in its history.

Sun makes its debut on the Fortune 500.

Years of leadership pay off: Sun, IBM, HP, and others unify UNIX system software.

Sun's external home page, www.sun.com, goes online.

As the exclusive computer supplier for the 1994 World Cup, Sun enables hundreds of thousands of soccer fans to tap into the Internet for up-to-the-minute information.

Revolutionary computerized retrofit of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco uses structural analysis with 3-D animation on Sun workstations and servers to dramatically reduce costs while improving public safety.

More than 100 Sun systems are used to render images for Disney's "Toy Story," the first all computer-generated feature film.

Sun and third-party associates reach another milestone--10,000 solutions on the SPARC/Solaris platform.

Sun offers downloadable try-and-buy software on the Internet.

SunSolve Online provides technical support via the Internet.

Sun receives ISO 9001 certification for quality in all major country service organizations, and ISO 9002 certification for all worldwide manufacturing operations.

Sun Ultra workstation family introduced. Features the 64-bit UltraSPARC processor with on-chip multimedia, graphics, and imaging technologies.

Sun licenses Java technology to all major hardware and software companies.

Sun and the House of Blues deliver interactive entertainment to Olympic spectators in Atlanta and around the world via the Internet.

Sun engineer Jon Bosak leads World Wide Web Consortium team developing XML. The extensible markup language is destined to become the standard for business data.

Sun's new server family introduced. Includes the 64-processor Sun Enterprise 10000 server with the processing power of four mainframes.

Sun becomes the first systems company ever to demonstrate the best TPC-C performance on all four leading database platforms.

Web-enhanced Solaris environment introduced. With more than 100 enhancements, this release substantially increases the software's Internet performance.

Sun StorEdge A5000 system introduced. It is the industry's only second-generation fibre-channel disk array.

Sun becomes the number one supplier of UNIX multiuser disk subsystems.

Say hello to instant networking. Sun's latest breakthrough, Jini technology, enables all kinds of devices to connect to the network-- instantly. Just plug it in, and it works.

Solaris 7 operating environment raises the bar for network software. Advanced 64-bit technology delivers dramatic increases in performance, capacity, and scalability.

America Online acquires Netscape; Sun and AOL to accelerate the growth of e-commerce and develop next-generation Internet devices in a historic three-year alliance.

Next generation of Java technology introduced. Java 2 software delivers more speed, more flexibility, and a complete set of foundation classes.

Micro, Standard, and Enterprise Editions of the Java 2 Platform provide the tools to create innovative applications for everything from wireless phones to datacenter servers.

The Jiro platform shows the way to open storage management.

Netra t1 servers make their debut -- designed for service providers, by service providers.

Sun makes StarOffice productivity suite available to all, free of charge.

Sun Ray 1 enterprise appliances with Hot Desk technology provide an ideal solution for enterprise workgroups.

Sun acquires Forte, an enterprise software company specializing in integration solutions, to round out its portfolio.

Sun-Netscape Alliance unveils innovative messaging solutions for service providers, portals, and enterprises.

Solaris 8 Operating Environment introduced. The only operating environment that marries datacenter and dot-com requirements

Sun's innovative capacity-on-demand program gives customers the ability to instantly respond to unpredictable spikes in network traffic.

Sun acquires Cobalt Networks. Popular server appliances extend product family.

Sun Sigma, a company-wide initiative, takes on the most pressing challenge of the Net economy - quality.

iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions, a Sun/Netscape Alliance, unveils industry's first full-up business-to-business commerce platform. Includes buying, selling, billing, market making, and trade facilitation software.

iPlanet unveils industry's first intelligent communications platform. Extensible software platform enables rapid delivery of wireless and wireline services.

Sun Open Net Environment, Sun ONE, provides an open software platform to create, assemble, and deploy smart, context-aware Web services.

Sun's UltraSPARC III processor debuts in Sun Blade 1000 workstations and Sun Fire 280R workgroup servers.

Sun Fire "midframe" computers introduced. Midrange servers combine mainframe-style capabilities with other enhancements.

Sun acquires HighGround. Suite of Web-based management solutions support wide range of storage technologies and applications.

More than 2.5 million programmers are developing innovative Java applications.

SunTone program now includes 1300 service providers and application providers as members.

iPlanet delivers first integrated wireless portal server for anytime, anywhere, any device access.

Sun acquires Pirus Networks, a leader in intelligent storage services. Company's virtualization technology is perfect fit with Sun's N1 architecture.

Sun acquires Terraspring, a pioneer in infrastructure automation software, further enhancing the N1 architecture.

Sun LX50 server introduced. New general-purpose systems run Linux or Solaris operating systems, extend product line into 32-bit, x86 market.

Sun powers more than 6000 computing grids with Grid Engine software.

Solaris 9 Operating Environment integrates application server and identity management.

World's largest data warehouse created from Sun-tested framework.

Sun Customer Ready Systems program delivers out-of-the-box solutions configured for specific customer needs.

Sun ONE Platform for Network Identity provides solid solutions to the decades defining issue.

Sun acquires Afara Websystems, a company that develops next-generation, SPARC®-based microprocessor technology.