Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems in 2010 and maintains the Java platform.
Oracle Corporation is an American enterprise-technology company founded in 1977 by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, and Ed Oates. It became known for database software and later expanded into cloud infrastructure, business applications, servers, and hardware.
Oracle completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems in January 2010. Sun had created Java in the 1990s, and the acquisition brought Java, Solaris, SPARC servers, and other technologies into Oracle. Java is a programming language and software platform used across enterprise systems, Android development history, web services, and many other applications.
A common mix-up is treating Java and JavaScript as the same language. They are separate technologies with different origins and designs. Oracle also acquired PeopleSoft in 2005 and acquired Cerner in 2022, strengthening its business-software and healthcare operations.