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Sun Microsystems, from its inception in 1982 to its acquisition by Oracle Corporation in 2010, became known for being "something of a farm system for Silicon Valley." It had a number of employees credited with notable achievements before, during or after their tenure there.
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- Brian Aker, MySQL Director of Technology
- Ken Arnold, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, co-author of The Java Programming Language
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- Carol Bartz, head of SunFed, Sun service and worldwide operations; Autodesk CEO, Yahoo! CEO
- Andy Bechtolsheim, Sun co-founder, systems designer and Silicon Valley investor
- Joshua Bloch, author of Effective Java
- Jon Bosak, chair of the original XML working group
- Jeff Bonwick, slab-allocator, vmem and ZFS
- Steve Bourne, creator of the Bourne shell
- Tim Bray, Sun Director of Web Technologies
- David J. Brown, SUN workstation at Stanford; Solaris at Sun
- Paul Buchheit, engineer at Sun from May 1997 to August 1997; Creator of Gmail
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- Bryan Cantrill, of 2005 Technology Review "Top 35 Young Innovators", co-inventor of DTrace
- Alfred Chuang, co-founder of BEA Systems
- Danny Cohen, co-creator of Cohen-Sutherland line clipping algorithms; coined the computer terms "Big Endians" and "Little Endians" (Endianness)
- Bill Coleman, co-founder of BEA Systems
- Danese Cooper, open source specialist
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- James Duncan Davidson, creator of the Tomcat web container and the Ant build tool
- L. Peter Deutsch, founder of Aladdin Enterprises and creator of Ghostscript
- Whitfield Diffie, Chief Security Officer, co-inventor of public-key cryptography
- Robert Drost, one of Technology Review's 2004 "Top 100 Young Innovators"
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- Dan Farmer, computer security researcher
- Marc Fleury, creator of the JBoss application server
- Ned Freed, email systems researcher, co-author of several MIME RFCs
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- Richard P. Gabriel, Lisp expert and founder of Lucid, Inc.
- John Gage, Chief Researcher and former Science Officer; first Sun salesman
- John Gilmore, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Cygnus Solutions
- Gary Ginstling, music industry executive
- James Gosling, co-inventor of Java; creator of NeWS networked extensible window system; author of the first (proprietary) Unix implementation of the Emacs text editor
- Todd Greanier, software architect, author and instructor
- Brendan Gregg, author of DTrace: Dynamic Tracing in Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X and FreeBSD, Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud
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- Kim Jones, Vice President of Global Education, Government and Health Sciences; CEO of Sun UK from 2007; CEO of Curriki
- Bill Joy, Sun co-founder and architect of BSD Unix; author of the vi text editor
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- Vinod Khosla, Sun co-founder and Silicon Valley investor
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- Susan Landau, mathematician and cybersecurity expert
- Adam Leventhal, co-inventor of DTrace
- Peter van der Linden, former manager of kernel group, author of numerous Java and C books
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- Chris Malachowsky, co-founder of NVIDIA
- Clark Masters EVP, Enterprise Systems and Father of the E10K, President of SunFed
- Craig McClanahan, creator or the Apache Struts framework and architect of Tomcat's servlet container, Catalina
- Scott McNealy, co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Sun; CEO from 1984-2006
- Larry McVoy, CEO of BitMover
- Björn Michaelsen, Director at The Document Foundation
- Mårten Mickos, CEO of MySQL AB from 2001 until Sun acquisition in 2008
- Jim Mitchell, Vice President and Sun Fellow
- Ian Murdock, Vice President of Developer and Community Marketing, founder of Debian
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- Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft
- Patrick Naughton, co-creator of Java
- Jakob Nielsen, web-design usability authority
- Peter Norvig, Director of Research, Google
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- John Ousterhout, inventor of the Tcl scripting language
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- Greg Papadopoulos, Executive Vice President and CTO
- Radia Perlman, sometimes known as the "Mother of the Internet"
- Simon Phipps, Chief Open Source Officer
- Kim Polese, prominent dot-com era executive
- Curtis Priem, co-founder of NVIDIA
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- George Reyes, former CFO of Google, Inc.
- David S. H. Rosenthal, early X Window System developer and original designer of the ICCCM
- Wayne Rosing, project lead for the Apple Lisa; Sun hardware development manager and manager of Sun Labs
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- Bob Scheifler, leader of X Window System development from 1984 to 1996
- Eric Schmidt, former Sun Chief Technology Officer, chairman and former CEO of Google, Inc., and co-developer of lex
- Jonathan I. Schwartz, former Sun President and CEO
- Ed Scott, co-founder of BEA Systems
- Mike Shapiro, co-inventor of DTrace
- Bob Sproull, computer graphics pioneer
- Guy L. Steele, Jr., co-inventor of the Scheme programming language and member of IEEE standards committees of many programming languages
- Bert Sutherland, manager of Sun Labs, Xerox PARC, BBN Computer Science Division
- Ivan Sutherland, computer graphics pioneer
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- Bruce Tognazzini, computer usability consultant
- Marc Tremblay, microprocessor architect and Sun's employee with the most awarded patents
- Bud Tribble, former VP of software development at NeXT, VP of software technology at Apple
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- Jim Waldo, lead architect of Jini
- Michael Widenius, original author of MySQL
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- William Yeager, software architect, inventor of the multi-protocol router
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