COMPANY: Sun Microsystems, Inc.

See http://www.sun.com/ for web site.

Sun is known as a hardware company (servers, desktops) but they also do a lot of work in Operating systems (SunOS and Linux), programming languages (Java today, Tcl, C, C++ in the past), and applications (OpenOffice, NFS, NeWS Display Postscript Window System).


From #tcl:

  • <davidw> *a sun employee*: I didn't think Tcl was that big at sun anymore.
  • *a sun employee* davidw: Tcl may not be big in product development, but it's huge in operations