Editing Sun Microsystems (section)

==Staff==
{{Main article|List of Sun Microsystems employees}}
[[Image:Sun Microsystems campus, Santa Clara, with fountain.jpg|thumb|left|A fountain within the Sun main campus in Santa Clara]]

Notable Sun employees included [[John Gilmore (activist)|John Gilmore]], [[Whitfield Diffie]], [[Radia Perlman]], [[Ivan Sutherland]], [[Marc Tremblay]], and [[Satya Nadella]]. Sun was an early advocate of Unix-based networked computing, promoting TCP/IP and especially NFS, as reflected in the company's motto [[The Network is the Computer]], coined by [[John Gage]]. [[James Gosling]] led the team which developed the [[Java (programming language)|Java programming language]]. [[Jon Bosak]] led the creation of the [[XML]] specification at [[W3C]].

In 2005, Sun Microsystems was one of the first [[Fortune 500]] companies that instituted a formal [[social media]] program.<ref name="Barker (2008)">{{Cite Q|Q105074887}}</ref> Sun staff published articles on the company's blog site.<ref>{{cite web |title=Blogs.sun.com |url=http://blogs.sun.com |publisher=Sun Microsystems |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100105170057/http://blogs.sun.com/ |url-status=dead |archive-date= January 5, 2010}}</ref> Staff were encouraged to use the site to blog on any aspect of their work or personal life, with few restrictions placed on staff, other than commercially confidential material. Jonathan I. Schwartz was one of the first CEOs of large companies to regularly blog; his postings were frequently quoted and analyzed in the press.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/16/AR2006091600257.html| title=Sun CEO Among the Few Chiefs Who Blog| newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]| date=September 16, 2006| access-date=June 4, 2011| first=Rachel| last=Konrad}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-06-25-exec-sun_x.htm |title=Sun CEO sees competitive advantage in blogging |work=[[USA Today]] |date=June 26, 2006 |access-date=June 4, 2011 |first=Del |last=Jones}}</ref>