Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold s, computer components, , and services and that created the
Java programming language,
Solaris Unix and the
Network File System (NFS). Sun significantly evolved several key computing technologies, among them Unix, RISC processors, thin client computing, and virtualized computing. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982. At its height, Sun headquarters were in
Santa Clara, California (part of
Silicon Valley), on the former west campus of the
Agnews Developmental Center.