Bluetrain.com Recognized by Sun Microsystems as a Leading Provider of Hosted Internet Applications; Bluetrain.com Joins Sun Startup Essentials Program.Business Editors/High Tech Writers WALNUT CREEK Walnut Creek, residential city (1990 pop. 60,569), Contra Costa co., W Calif., in the San Francisco Bay area; inc. 1914. It is the trade and shipping center of an extensive agricultural area where walnuts are among the major product. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 14, 2000 Bluetrain.com, a provider of hosted Internet applications for midsize companies, today announced the company has joined the Sun Developer Connection (SM) Sun Startup Essentials (SM) Program launched last month by Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ). Bluetrain.com will use the program to enable the rapid development and deployment of Bluetrain.com Passport software, a premier business application that brings the power and functionality of an enterprise groupware Software that supports multiple users working on related tasks in local and remote networks. Also called "collaborative software," groupware is an evolving concept that is more than just multiuser software which allows access to the same data. environment to users in midsize companies more cost-effectively. In addition, Bluetrain.com will use the Startup Essentials program to further extend the value of Passport by creating a highly reliable and massively scalable architecture for applications development, as well as a platform for Bluetrain.com's partners to extend the value of services offered to their customers. "Bluetrain.com and Sun share a similar vision that small to medium organizations also need enterprise-class communications and collaboration tools A collaboration tool is something that helps people collaborate. The term is often used to mean collaborative software, but collaboration tools were being used before computers existed, a piece of paper can for example can be used as collaboration tool. to grow their businesses and compete effectively in a global marketplace. With the help of the Sun Startup Essentials program, Bluetrain.com can speed delivery of Passport and other capabilities that help companies focus on their core competencies A core competency is something that a firm can do well and that meets the following three conditions specified by Hamel and Prahalad (1990):
"The Sun Startup Essentials program is designed to bring Sun's expertise, technology and platform to new dot-com companies An organization that offers its services exclusively on the Internet, either via the user's Web browser or a client program that must be installed in the user's computer. Amazon.com, Yahoo!, Google and eBay are examples of dot-com companies. in order to reduce risk and accelerate time-to-revenue," said Jeanette Kennedy, director dot-com and ASP Market Development. "Bluetrain.com is just the type of high potential dot-com company that Sun is helping develop with this program. Bluetrain.com's Passport, powered by Sun servers and technology, supports the needs of mid-market companies that require enterprise-class, browser-based, groupware applications that can scale to support organizations with up to 1,000 users." Sun is unique to the industry with its comprehensive program and set of products and services dedicated to dot-com startups of all kinds. Laying the foundation for a broad community of startups, the new Sun Developer Connection Sun Startup Essentials offering provides dot-com companies the opportunity to jumpstart their online businesses and accelerate their time to revenue. About Bluetrain.com Bluetrain.com provides the only enterprise-class communication and collaboration application delivered via the Internet. Located in Walnut Creek, Calif., Bluetrain.com delivers large company power and flexibility on a small company budget. The company hosts groupware for a wide range of customer including restaurants, design agencies and software companies. Bluetrain.com's innovative products and services have attracted high-profile hardware, database and software partners. Note to Editors: Sun, the Sun logo, Sun Microsystems, Sun Developer Connection, Sun Startup Essentials and The Network in The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and other countries. |
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