List of Sun Microsystems employees

List of people who worked at Sun Microsystems at some point prior to its acquisition by Oracle Corporation.

A courtyard at the Sun main campus in Santa Clara, California

A

  • Brian Aker, MySQL Director of Technology
  • Ken Arnold, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, co-author of "The Java Programming Language".

B

C

  • 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)
  • Danese Cooper, Open Source specialist

D

  • 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"

F

  • Dan Farmer, computer security researcher
  • Marc Fleury, creator of the JBoss application server
  • Ned Freed, email systems researcher, co-author of several MIME RFCs

G

  • 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[1][2]
  • 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

J

  • 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

K

L

  • 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

M

N

O

  • John Ousterhout, inventor of the Tcl scripting language

P

R

  • 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

S

  • 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 President and CEO of Sun
  • 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

T

  • 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, current VP of software technology at Apple

W

  • Jim Waldo, lead architect of Jini
  • Michael Widenius, original author of MySQL

Y

  • William Yeager, software architect, inventor of the multi-protocol router.

Z

  • Edward Zander, former President of Sun Microsystems; former CEO of Motorola

References

  1. "Gary Ginstling: Executive Director National Symphony Orchestra". The Kennedy Center. Retrieved 8 February 2023.
  2. Lindquist, David (June 5, 2017). "Symphony CEO Gary Ginstling will lead National Symphony Orchestra". IndyStar. Retrieved 8 February 2023.
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