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Among the most common "humorous" acronyms:. Whilst new releases of OpenOffice.org are relatively frequent, StarOffice follows a more conservative release schedule supposedly more suited to enterprise deployments. Fiat's history of cheap cars has left a negative image in many countries, especially Germany, where Fiat cars are considered unreliable and badly built. The principal differences between StarOffice and OpenOffice.org are that Sun supports it and it comes nicely packaged with extensive documentation, a wider range of fonts and templates and what Sun claims to be an improved dictionary and thesaurus. Fiat cars have won the European Car of the Year Award 8 times. The current StarOffice product is a closed-source product based on OpenOffice.org. After Fiat ceased importing cars into the United States, however, they continued to be imported into Canada, as did Soviet versions of Fiat models. OpenOffice.org is designed to be compatible with Microsoft Office, is available on many platforms and widely used in the open source community.

Fiat models imported into the USA were so infamous for poor reliability that the acronym FIAT was said to stand for "Fix it again, Tony". Sun acquired the German software company StarDivision and with it StarOffice, which it released as the office suite OpenOffice.org under both GNU LGPL and the SISSL (Sun Industry Standards Source License). Fiat has factories in Brazil, Turkey, China and India, where local variants of Fiats are produced as well as the world car, the Palio. The Micro Edition (J2ME) is used to build software for devices with limited resources, such as mobile devices. Fiat also has a subsidiary in Poland at Tychy,(formerly called FSM) where Fiat's small cars (the 126, Cinquecento and now Seicento) are made. The Standard Edition (J2SE) of the API provides basic infrastructure and GUI functionality, while the Enterprise Edition (J2EE) is aimed at large software companies implementing enterprise-class application servers. Being AutoVAZ (Lada), (most notably for the Lada Riva). The Java APIs provide an extensive set of library routines.

Notably, it was one of the first companies to built factories in soviet controlled countries, with the best known examples in Vladivostok, Kyiv and Togliattigrad. In order to allow programs written in the Java language to be run on (virtually) any device, Java programs are compiled to byte code, which can be executed by any JVM, regardless of the environment. The group is present in many countries, not only in the West. Since its introduction in late 1995, it has become one of the world's most popular programming languages. Palazzo Grassi, a famous ancient building in Venice, now a museum and formerly supported by Fiat, was eventually sold to the Venice casino in January 2005. The Java programming language is an object-oriented programming language. Fiat supports the Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli, an important foundation for social and economic research. The design of the Java platform is controlled by the vendor and user community through the Java Community Process (JCP).

Fiat assembly plants are among the most automated and advanced in the world. The platform consists of three major parts, the Java programming language, the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), and several Java Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). In the 1970s and 1980s, the company became a pioneer in the use of industrial robotics for the assembly of motor vehicles. This positioning was never very successful and while browser-based applications have had considerable success in displacing compiled applications on the desktop, Java has never been an important part of the web-browser experience. Fiat corporation, starting from the late 1960s, has bought (or gained control of) a wide range of companies, including:. Java was initially promoted as a platform for client-side applets running inside the web browser. These machinery were weak compared to some of the German and Soviet machinery, but were still used often. While this objective has not been entirely achieved (prompting the riposte "Write once, debug everywhere"), Java is regarded as being largely hardware- and operating system-independent.

Fiat made fighter aircraft, which was one of the most common Italian aircraft used along with the Savoia-Marchetti, and also made light tanks and armored vehicles. The Java platform, developed in the early 1990s was specifically developed with the objective of allowing programs to function regardless of the device they were used on, sparking the slogan "Write once, run everywhere". Fiat was to make military machinery and vehicles during World War II for the Italian Army and Air Force. Backed with a massive class library Java programs can call upon a large set of GUI, mathematical and Internet access code that is tried and proven. Fiat built the famous Lingotto car factory, opened in 1923. The Java programming language took the best features from the then industry standard language C++ and removed nearly all of its bad or rather more difficult and dangerous features, such as pointers. It also has significant worldwide operations, operating in 61 countries with 1,063 companies that employ over 223,000 people, 111,000 of whom are outside Italy. It has already released its newest OS, Solaris 10, under the open-source Common Development and Distribution License.

It is Italy's largest industrial concern. It has also announced plans to supply its Java Enterprise System (a middleware stack) on Linux. Over time it has diversified into many other fields, and the group now has activities in a wide range of sectors in industry and financial services. Recently, Sun has offered Linux-based desktop software called Java Desktop System (originally code-named "Madhatter") for use both on x86 hardware and on Sun's Sun Ray thin-client systems. The group's activities were initially focused on the industrial production of cars, industrial and agricultural vehicles. Blastwave compiles and packages open source software for Solaris machines, and has automated software consistency tracking, upgrading and completeing dependancies as part of the upload process. . Though a late adopter, it has included Linux as part of its strategy, following several years of difficult competition and loss of server market share to Linux-based systems.

Sergio Marchionne was named to replace him on June 1, 2004. Sun is also known for community-based and open-source licensing of its major technologies. At this point, CEO Giuseppe Morchio immediately offered his resignation. Sun offered a secure variant of Solaris called Trusted Solaris for releases before the current Solaris 10, which includes the same capabilities as part of the basic offering. After Umberto Agnelli's death on May 28, 2004, Luca Cordero di Montezemolo was named chairman, but Agnelli heir John Elkann became vice chairman at age 28 and other family members are on the board. In 1992, along with AT&T, it integrated BSD UNIX and System V into Solaris, which as a result is based on UNIX SVR4. His grandson Gianni Agnelli was Fiat chairman from 1966 until his death on January 24, 2003, when he was succeeded by his brother Umberto Agnelli. Later in 1982 Sun provided a customized 4.1BSD UNIX called SunOS as an operating system for its workstations.

The name is the acronym of Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino (Italian Car Factory of Turin), founded by Giovanni Agnelli in 1899. The Sun 1 was shipped with Unisoft V7 UNIX. is an automobile manufacturer, financial and industrial group based in Turin, Northern Italy. All Sun systems have been based on UNIX systems which are well known for system stability and a consistent design philosophy. Fiat S.p.A.
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Fehler In Allen Teilen (Mistakes in every part). The laptop, called Ultra 3 Mobile Workstation, is based on Sun's Ultrasparc processor and running Solaris operating system. Für Italien Ausreichende Technik (Technology sufficient for Italy). On June 26, 2005, Sun announced it would produce laptops. Fix It Again Tomorrow. If approved, the merger would create a company with approximately 39,000 employees. Fix It Again, Tony. On June 2, 2005, Sun announced it would purchase Storage Technology Corporation ("Storagetek") for US$4.1 billion in cash, or $37.00 per share.

2004: Fiat Panda (New). This was followed by net loss of $9 mln on GAAP basis for the third quarter 2005, as reported on April 14, 2005. 1996: Fiat Brava/Bravo. In January 2005, Sun reported a net profit of $19 million for fiscal 2005 second quarter, for the first time in three years. 1995: Fiat Punto. Since most of Suns assets are intellectual property and reputation, this is a prudent financial stategy. 1989: Fiat Tipo. Sun chooses not to carry some forms of insurance (such as earthquake insurance).

1984: Fiat Uno. The announced business model is the sale of support services on a variety of bases including per-employee and per-socket. 1972: Fiat 127. Sun's positioning includes a commitment to indemnify users of some software from intellectual property disputes concerning that software. 1970: Fiat 128. Sun's software initiatives are increasingly making use of Open Source, most notably including Solaris via the OpenSolaris community. 1967: Fiat 124. This offering builds upon an existing 3,000-CPU server farm used for internal R&D for over 10 years, of which Sun claims to be able to achieve 97% utilization.

X1/9. In February 2005, Sun announced the Sun Grid, a grid computing deployment on which it offers utility computing services priced at $1 (US) per CPU/hour for processing and per GB/month for storage. Uno. To this end, it acquired Kaelia, a startup founded by original Sun founder Andy Bechtolsheim, which had been focusing on high-performance AMD-based servers. Ulysse. Finally, it has a strategic alliance with AMD to produce market-leading x86/x64 servers based on AMD's Opteron processor. Topolino. The company also announced a collaboration with Fujitsu to use the Japanese company's processor chips in some future Sun computers.

Tipo. Instead, the company chose to concentrate on processor projects emphasizing multi-threading and multiprocessing, such as the Niagara Processor. Tempra. In 2004, in common with the trend of specialisation in the electronics industry, Sun cancelled two major processor projects which were emphasizing high instruction level parallelism and high operating frequency. Stilo. This use is due mainly to the company basing its products around a mature version of the Unix operating system and the support service that Sun provides. Siena. Also, higher level telecom control systems such as NMAS and OSS service predominantly use Sun equipment.

Seicento. It is notable that very high use services like eBay use Sun products for reliability reasons. Ritmo/Strada. They reported benefits including substantially lower expenses (both acquisition and maintenance) and greater flexibility based on the use of open-source software. Regata. Many companies (like E*Trade and Google) chose to build Web applications based on large numbers of the less expensive PC-class Intel-architecture servers running Linux, rather than a smaller number of high-end Sun servers. Punto. In mid-2004, Sun ceased manufacturing operations at their Newark, California facility and consolidated all of the company's US-based manufacturing operations to their Hillsboro, Oregon facility, as part of continued cost-reduction efforts.

Premio. In 2002 the share price returned to the 1998 pre-bubble level, a pattern of escalation and decline comparable to other companies in the sector, and has hovered in the single digits since then. Panda (also New Panda). Multiple quarters of substantial losses and declining revenues have led to repeated rounds of layoffs, executive departures, and expense-reduction efforts. Palio. Much like Apple, Sun relied a great deal on hardware sales. Multipla. As online businesses closed and assests auctioned off a large amount of high-end Sun hardware was availible very cheaply.

Marea. The bursting of the bubble in 2001 was the start of a period of poor business performance for Sun, as the growth of online business failed to meet predictions sales dropped. Idea. In response to this business growth, Sun expanded aggressively in all areas: head-count, infrastructure, and office space. Duna (designed in Brazil). The share price in particular increased to a level that even the company's executives were hard-pressed to defend. Ducato. Some part of this was due to genuine expansion of demand for web-serving cycles, but another part was synthetic, fueled by venture capital-funded startups building out large, expensive Sun-centric server presences in the expectation of high traffic levels that never materialized.

Doblò. During the dot-com bubble, Sun experienced dramatic growth in revenue, profits, share price, and expenses. Dino. Driven by the increased prominence of web-serving database-searching applications, blade servers (high density rack-mounted systems) were also emphasized. Croma. The Cray CS-6400 server line was transformed into the very successful Sun Enterprise 10000 mainframes. Coupé. This transition was enabled by technology that was acquired from Silicon Graphics and Cray Research.

Cinquecento. In the late-1990s, as Sun's workstations were lagging in performance when compared to that of their competitors and especially to Wintel Personal Computers, the company successfully transformed itself to a vendor of large-scale Symmetric multiprocessing servers. Bravo. None of these business initiatives were particularly successful. Brava. Sun also marketed a network computer (diskless workstation, as popularized by Oracle Corporation CEO Larry Ellison). Bianchina. In the mid-1990s, Sun acquired Diba and Cobalt Networks with the aim of building network appliances (single function computers meant for consumers).

Barchetta. Currently, Sun is again selling x86 hardware and has introduced a version of Solaris for AMD64. Albea. An x86 port of Solaris has been available since then. 1100. For a short period in the late 1980s, they sold an Intel 80386–based machine, the Sun 386i. 600. For the first decade of Sun's history, the company was predominately a vendor of technical workstations, competing successfully as a low-cost vendor during the Workstation Wars of the 1980s.

500. Sun has had a difficult time keeping up with its competitors' processors' clock speed and computing power, but its customer base has been fairly loyal due to the popularity, and legendary stability, of its SunOS (and later Solaris) versions of Unix. 131. Sun also has a second line of lower cost processors meant for low-end systems which included the MicroSparc-I, MicroSparc-II, UltraSparc-IIe, UltraSparc-IIi, and UltraSparc-IIIi. 130. Sun has developed several generations of workstations and servers, including SPARC Station series, Sun Ultra Series and the Sun Fire series. 128. Sun has implemented multiple high-end generations of the Sparc architecture, including Sparc-1, SuperSparc, UltraSparc-I, UltraSparc-II, UltraSparc-III, and currently UltraSparc IV.

127. Starting with the Sun 4 line (SPARCstation 1 onwards), the company used its own processor family, SPARC, which employs an IEEE standard RISC architecture. 126. Sun originally used the Motorola 68000 CPU family for the Sun 1 through Sun 3 computer series. 125. The initial version of the logo had the sides oriented horizontally and vertically, but it was subsequently redesigned so as to appear to stand on one corner. Other activities include industrial securitisation (Consorzio Sirio), treasury (Fiat Geva), Fiat Information & Communication Services. Sun's logo, which features four interleaved copies of the word sun, was designed by professor Vaughan Pratt, also of Stanford University.

Other services Fiat Gesco, KeyG Consulting, Sadi Customs Services, Easy Drive, RM Risk Management and Servizio Titoli are minor companies that work for public services, delivering services in economics and financial fields. Most recently, Jon Bosak led the creation of the XML specification at W3C. Leisure The group owns the Sestrieres skiing facilities (being this village on Alps a creation of Agnelli family). James Gosling led the team which developed the Java programming language. Information technology - Fiat is present in IT fields and in communications with ICT - Information & Communication Technology, Espin, Global Value, TeleClient, Atlanet. 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". Construction - Ingest Facility and Fiat Engineering work in various fields of construction, while IPI is a mediation company that also deals with the management of real estate properties. Other Sun luminaries include early employees John Gilmore and James Gosling.

Financial services - An important insurance company, Toro Assicurazioni, allows Fiat to control a relevant part of this market (also with minor companies like Lloyd Italico, Augusta Assicurazioni) and to interact with some associated banks. Its founders were Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy, Bill Joy (a primary developer of BSD Unix), and Andy Bechtolsheim; McNealy and Bechtolsheim remain at Sun. A specialised advertising space reseller is Publikompass, supported by the Consorzio Fiat Media Center. The company was incorporated in 1982 and went public in 1986. Some national and local newspapers are owned or otherwise controlled by the different companies. The company name SUN originally stood for Stanford University Network (which is reflected in the company's stock symbol, SUNW, which now stands for Sun Worldwide). Publishing - notably, Fiat group also owns important editorial brands, like La Stampa (created in 1926 for the famous newspaper), Itedi, Italiana Edizioni. The initial design for Sun's UNIX workstation was conceived when the founders were graduate students at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

Steelmaking and metallurgy - Fiat owns Teksid and produces machines for the industry (also for car factories) with Comau (now Comau Systems), which bought the American Pico, Renault Automation and Sciaky. . Vehicle components - the major Italian component maker Magneti-Marelli is owned by Fiat, and in turn owns the other brands Carello, Automotive Lighting, Siem, Cofap, Jaeger, Solex, Veglia Borletti, Vitaloni and Weber; other accessory brands include Riv-Skf and Brazilian Cofap. The east branch is also owned by the company and is located in San Jose. Military vehicles, see Ariete. Sun Microsystems is headquartered on the west campus of Agnews Developmental Area in Santa Clara, California, which was formerly an asylum. Aviation - aircraft and related components were produce by FiatAvio (now Avio, an independent company), which also controls EVL, a space industry. A wide choice of windowing systems are now offered, including Open source contributions.

Buses - produced with the Fiat, Iveco or Irisbus names. The pioneering OpenLook (Sun's own graphical user interface) was very stable but would now be considered minimalistic. Construction vehicles, produced by Fiat-Hitachi Construction and New Holland Construction. From June 2005, Sun also produces laptops called Ultra 3 Mobile Workstation [1]. Agricultural vehicles - Fiat group also owns CNH Global, New Holland and the Canadian Flexy-Coils. Sun's products include computer servers and workstations based on its own SPARC and AMD's Opteron processors, the Solaris and Linux operating systems, the NFS network file system, and the Java platform. Fiat also owns some brands of industrial vehicles including OM and Iveco. Sun's manufacturing facilities are located in Hillsboro, Oregon and Linlithgow, Scotland.

Car companies - the long list includes well known firms like Ferrari, Lancia, Autobianchi (already bought by Lancia), Alfa Romeo, Maserati and Innocenti. Sun Microsystems (Sun Microsystems, Inc.) is a computer, semiconductor and software manufacturer headquartered in Santa Clara, California, in Silicon Valley. Scott McNealy. Vinod Khosla. Bill Joy.

Andy Bechtolsheim. Robert Drost, of 2004 Technology Review "Top 100 Top Young Innovators". Mike Sheridan, co-inventor of Java language. Patrick Naughton, Java language project initiator.

James Gosling, co-inventor of Java language.