Oracle Labs (formerly Sun Microsystems Laboratories, or Sun Labs) is a
research and development branch of
Oracle Corporation. The labs were created when Oracle acquired
Sun Microsystems. Sun Labs was established in 1990 by
Ivan Sutherland and
Robert Sproull. The initial locations were in
Menlo Park, California
Menlo Park is a city at the eastern edge of San Mateo County within the San Francisco Bay Area of California in the United States. It is bordered by San Francisco Bay on the north and east; East Palo Alto, Palo Alto, and Stanford to the south ...
and
Burlington, Massachusetts, United States.
Oracle Labs has locations in
Redwood Shores, California
Redwood Shores is a waterfront community in Redwood City, California, along the western shore of San Francisco Bay on the San Francisco Peninsula in San Mateo County. Redwood Shores is the home of several major technology companies, including O ...
;
Burlington, Massachusetts;
Cambridge
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, UK;
Brisbane
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, Australia;
Vienna
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, Austria;
Zürich
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, twintowns = Kunming, San Francisco
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, Switzerland; and
Casablanca, Morocco.
Sun
Sun Labs worked in areas such as
asynchronous circuit
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s,
optical communications
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, new
web technologies,
Java
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technologies, and
computer network
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s.
James G. Mitchell directed the labs starting in 2000.
When asked in 2007 why Sun continued to put resources into research as the market turned to commodity pricing, chief executive
Jonathan I. Schwartz said, "You need to spend enormous amounts of money to differentiate."
Oracle
In 2010 after
Sun was purchased by
Oracle Corporation, it became Oracle Labs.
Sproull was director.
He was appointed in June 2006.
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Organizations established in 1990
Sun Microsystems
Research organizations in the United States
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Buildings and structures in San Mateo County, California
Burlington, Massachusetts
Menlo Park, California