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by wilsynet 493 days ago
I do not recall Sun being renamed into “Java”. It was acquired by Oracle as Sun Microsystems.
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Sun changed its stock ticker from SUNW to JAVA. It never mattered for a dying company. Solaris packages were named SUNWxxxx, and was never renamed.
Correct, I recall the stock ticker symbol was renamed to JAVA, but not the company.
Yes I should have clarified that that was stock ticker (or found another actual example).