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In Pictures: Sun's stars - Where are they now?

Sun was founded Andy Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy and Bill Joy in 1982. Sun went public in 1986 and was raking in $1 billion in annual sales by 1988.

In Pictures: Sun's stars - Where are they now?
IN PICTURES: Remember this? The rise and fall of Sun Microsystems

Sun was a tech juggernaut for nearly three decades. It was consigned to memory in 2009, but this year would have been its 30th anniversary so we give this former titan its due.

IN PICTURES: Remember this? The rise and fall of Sun Microsystems

Cohesity appoints APAC head of alliances for partner support

Brings over 20 years of experience to the role
Hitachi Vantara appoints Adrian Johnson as A/NZ managing director

Johnson brings over 20 years of experience to the role
Is the Sun setting on Oracle's Solaris business?

Reports of redundancies within Oracle's Solaris and SPARC teams raise questions over the future of Oracle offerings
Telstra taps Juniper Networks to fill vacant COO role

Ex-Juniper Networks executive steps up to the Telstra boardroom.
Open source community mourns death of Debian creator Ian Murdock at age 42

The open source community was stunned this week to learn that Ian Murdock, the "ian" in Linux distribution Debian, has died at the age of ...
Dell-EMC deal will 'set back innovation,' Sun co-founder, Vinod Khosla, says

Instead, businesses should look towards startups to provide innovative solutions

Hall of Fame 2010 inductee - Laurie Sellers: the risk taker

Hailing from Yorkshire, England, this dedicated IT man has worn many hats from field services manager to support manager to software development manager to chief ...
Contract attorney offers tips in case of IBM-Sun merger

Now would be a really good time to negotiate a deal with Sun, Diana McKenzie says.

Electronic Frontier Foundation celebrates 25 years of defending online privacy

Its first major case was one in which the US Secret Service, hunting a stolen documented, raided a company's computers
Java at 20: Its successes, failures, and future

Oracle's Java VP discusses J2EE, OpenJDK, security woes, and the long gap before Java 7
Java at 20: The JVM, Java's other big legacy

The virtual machine that runs Java is also the runtime for new languages -- some quite unlike Java
Java at 20: The programming juggernaut rolls on

Java has joined C and C++ as a programming language that has stood the test of time
10 things you need to know about Satya Nadella, Microsoft's new CEO

Satya who? You'll know after reading this. (He loves books and online neuroscience courses!)
So, a comic walks into a tech convention

Ex-engineer and standup comedian Don McMillan says he is 'still a geek at heart'