The labs were created when Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems.
[1] Sun Labs was established in 1990 by Ivan Sutherland and Robert Sproull.
The initial locations were in Menlo Park, California and Burlington, Massachusetts, United States.
Oracle Labs has locations in Redwood Shores, California; Burlington, Massachusetts; Cambridge, UK; Brisbane, Australia; Linz, Austria; Zürich, Switzerland; and Casablanca, Morocco.
[2] 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.