Sun Microsystems, Inc. is a multinational vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information technology services. In response to this business growth, Sun expanded aggressively in all areas: head-count, infrastructure, and office space.
Products include computer servers and workstations based on its own SPARC processors as well as AMD's Petron and suite of software products including the Solaris Operating System, developer tools, Web infrastructure software, and identity management applications. Other technologies of note include the Java platform and NFS.
Sun is a proponent of open systems in general and UNIX in particular, and a major contributor to open source software. During the dot-com bubble, Sun experienced dramatic growth in revenueshare price, and expenses. The share price in particular increased to a level that even the company's executives were hard-pressed to defend.
Some part of this was due to genuine expansion of demand for web-serving cycles, but another part was synthetic, fueled by venture capital-funded startups building out large, expensive Sun-centric server presences in the expectation of high traffic levels that never materialized.
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