SUN MICROSYSTEMS PLATFORM PROVIDES SOLID FOUNDATION FOR WIRELESS TRADING SERVICE FROM PDA.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) ) has announced that Credit Suisse The Credit Suisse Group (SWX:CSGN, NYSE: CS) is a financial services company, headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland. It is the second-largest Swiss bank, behind UBS AG. chose the Solaris Operating Environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. and Sun's robust servers for the backend Infrastructure of Credit Suisse's wireless trading solution for personal Digital assistants (PDAs) in Switzerland. Youtrade, Credit Suisse's Java Technology-based solution for the Swiss market, is designed to enable Private investors in Switzerland to trade equities, warrants and bonds in real time via a Palm Pilot or Handspring Visor An electronic PDA originally from Handspring, Mountain View, CA (www.handspring.com) that was introduced in 1999 by the people who invented and marketed the PalmPilot. Based on the Palm OS, it was the first handheld to use the USB interface. . This Java technology-based wireless trading solution, developed with Ergon Informatic AG, a software company based in Switzerland, operates on the Palm platform and uses SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) The leading security protocol on the Internet. Developed by Netscape, SSL is widely used to do two things: to validate the identity of a Web site and to create an encrypted connection for sending credit card and other personal data. 3.0 to provide a service with the same security as is used for a PC with a landline connection. Swiss investors place their mobile phones in front of the Palm's infrared interface to make a wireless connection to the Credit Suisse server and access trading information and services. To meet its business-critical need for a highly reliable and secure system, Credit Suisse's service for Switzerland uses Sun's Enterprise 450 servers running the Solaris Operating Environment and is compliant with the SunConnect specification. Built on extensible open industry standards that enable the rapid implementation of agile and scalable Web-based solutions, the SunConnect architecture is engineered to maximize the use of differing technologies in order to minimize costs associated with altering existing legacy technology. |
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