As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 27, 2010.

Registration No. 333-142795

 

 

 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

TO

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware		94-2805249
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

4150 Network Circle

Santa Clara, California 95054

(650) 960-1300

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number,

including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

Dorian Daley

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

4150 Network Circle

Santa Clara, California 95054

(650) 960-1300

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number,

including area code, of agent for service)

Copy To:

John M. Newell, Esq.

Latham & Watkins LLP

505 Montgomery Street, Suite 2000

San Francisco, California 94111

(415) 391-0600

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: N/A

If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box.  ¨

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box.  ¨

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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 relates to the Registration Statement on Form S-3ASR (Registration No. 333-142795) of Sun Microsystems, Inc. (the “Company”) filed on May 10, 2007 and effective May 10, 2007 (the “Registration Statement”), pertaining to the registration of convertible notes and underlying common stock of the Company.

On January 26, 2010 (the “Effective Time”), pursuant to the terms of the Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”), dated as of April 19, 2009, by and among the Registrant, Oracle Corporation and Soda Acquisition Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oracle Corporation, Soda Acquisition Corporation merged with and into the Registrant, and the Registrant became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oracle Corporation (the “Merger”). As a result of the Merger, the offering pursuant to the Registration Statement has been terminated.

As a result of the Merger, the Company has terminated all offerings of its securities pursuant to its existing registration statements, including the Registration Statement. In accordance with an undertaking made by the Company in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any securities of the Company which remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Company hereby removes and withdraws from registration all securities of the Company registered pursuant to the Registration Statement, including the convertible notes and common stock of the Company, which remain unsold as of the Effective Time.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the city of Redwood City, State of California, on the 27th day of January, 2010.

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

SIGNATURE		TITLE		DATE
/S/    DORIAN DALEY         Dorian Daley		President and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)		January 27, 2010
/S/    JEFF EPSTEIN         Jeff Epstein		Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)		January 27, 2010
/S/    BRADY MICKELSEN         Brady Mickelsen		Director		January 27, 2010