In general, Sun was a proponent of open systems, particularly Unix. It was also a major contributor to open-source software, as evidenced by its $1 billion purchase, in 2008, of MySQL, an open-source relational database management system. Other notable Sun acquisitions include Cray Business Systems Division, Storagetek, and Innotek GmbH, creators of VirtualBox. On April 20, 2009, it was announced that Oracle would acquire Sun for 7.4 billion. The deal was completed on January 27, 2010.
in general sun was a proponent of open systems particularly unix it was also a major contributor to open-source software as evidenced by its $1 billion purchase in 2008 of mysql an open-source relational database management system other notable sun acquisitions include cray business systems division storagetek and innotek gmbh creators of virtualbox on april 20 2009 it was announced that oracle would acquire sun for 74 billion the deal was completed on january 27 2010