Over the past decade, Sun Labs has had a hand in the development of products and technologies that have improved people's lives and created a multi-billion-dollar economic impact. The matrix below presents just a small fraction of the projects undertaken at Sun Labs since 1991. These examples were chosen from a few of the papers in the tenth anniversary volume, "The First Ten Years," chosen to highlight the breadth of the Labs' projects and their significance to Sun. The entire volume of papers is posted at: [ The First Ten Years ].
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Sun Product
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Technology from Sun Labs
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People
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Java™ Software Platform
The portable, platform-independent software environment
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Java virtual machine specifications, Java HotSpot™ technology, Java Remote Method Invocation interface, Java KVM, JavaSpaces architecture, JavaTest™ software, 100% Pure Java specification
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Dave Ungar, Jim Mitchell, Yousef Khalidi, Sanjay Radia, Peter Kessler, Jonathan Gibbons, Graham Hamilton, Peter Madany
Spotless:
Mario Wolczko, Antero Taivalsaari, Bill Bush
ExactVM:
Ole Agesen
Hotspot:
Lars Bak, Urs Hoelzle, David Detlefs, David Ungar
MVM:
Greg Czajkowski, Laurent Daynes
GC:
Steve Heller, Alex Garthwaite, Derek White
JRMS:
Steve Hanna, Miriam Kadansky, Phil Rosenzweig
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Java Programming Language
The "write once, run anywhere" programming language
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Enhancements to the Java language and software development tools
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James Gosling, Ken Arnold, Bill Joy, Guy Steele, Greg Bollella
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SPARC™ v9 Architecture
The technological foundation of Sun's UltraSPARC microprocessors
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64-bit addressing, upward compatibility with previous-generation SPARC processors
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David R. Ditzel, David Weaver, Gary Lauterbach
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High-speed Chips
Faster chips that consume less power than conventional designs
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Asynchronous circuit design technology
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Ivan Sutherland, Bob Sproull, Charles Molnar, Jo Ebergen, William Coates, Jon Lexau, Ian Jones, David Harris
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Sun™ Cluster 3.0 Software
Increase uptime for groups of servers
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Solaris Management Console™ technology
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Yousef Khalidi, Vlada Matena, Moti Thadani, Ken Shiriff, Jose Bernabeu, Declan Murphy
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ShowMe Whiteboard™ Software
An interactive tool for collaborative desktop videoconferencing
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SunForum™ technologies
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David Gedye, John Tang
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Software Testing Tools
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ADL and TDD languages, ADL translator
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Alberto Savoia, Roger Hayes, Sriram Sankar, Roongko Doong, Matt Evans
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Sun MediaCenter Hardware
A video-on-demand server product
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Technologies for the creation, storage/retrieval, transport, and presentation of rich, interactive, networked media
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James Hanko
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Access X and Mercator
Human accessibility products for the Sun environment
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Technology for blind access to the UNIX® environment and keyboard enhancements to the Solaris™ Operating Environment
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Earl Johnson, Eric Bergman
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Sun Ray™ Desktops
Provide instant access to files and resources of your desktop computer from anywhere
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Hot Desk Technology
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J. Duane Northcutt, Jim Hanko, Jerry Wall,
Alan Ruberg, Lawrence Butcher, Marc Schneider, Paul Hansen, and Neil Wilhelm
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LOCKSS System
Data integrity and document protection solution
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LOCKSS polling system and unique integrity system
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David Rosenthal, Vicky Reich
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