Sun Changes the Application Server Landscape.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 1998-- NetDynamics(TM) Software Bundle for the Solaris(TM) Operating Environment, Garners More Major Customers; Enhances Transactional Capabilities through Inprise Deal 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 NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of NetDynamics, Inc. and has immediately begun to change the application server landscape. Sun is making the NetDynamics(TM) application platform central to its enterprise software business. It will serve as the foundation for a complete line of application servers that scale applications from embedded devices to mainframes, and provide integration with legacy systems, databases, and business applications. Effective immediately, Sun will offer a NetDynamics software bundle option with all Sun servers running the Solaris(TM) 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. . Sun also announced that NetDynamics continues to garner more major customer wins and successes, including Countrywide (operating on the Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. system), FedEx (Solaris, HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , Windows NT), GetSmart.com (Solaris), and Telstra (HP-UX and Windows NT). Sun acquired NetDynamics to provide the architectural foundation of the next wave in enterprise network computing Storing and/or running applications in servers in a network. See cloud computing and network computer. - application servers based on the Java(TM) technology platform. The NetDynamics application server NetDynamics Application Server was an integrated software platform. It was developed by NetDynamics Inc., which was bought in 1999 by Sun Microsystems. The application server software, together with the Netscape Application Server was the basis for the later Sun's iPlanet platform is a proven technology and business solution that complements the Java Web Server A Web server from Sun that ran under Solaris and NT. It supported Java servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology. Version 2.0 was the final release of the product, which was created to provide an upgrade path to servlet processing (Servlet API 2.1) for prior Java Web Server customers. (TM), Java Embedded Server(TM) products, and other enterprise Java products. With NetDynamics technology, Sun delivers a middle-tier application layer that ties together disparate operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , databases, business applications, embedded devices, desktop computers, and mainframes. The product line helps organizations more effectively connect their customers, partners, suppliers and employees to gain competitive advantage in the Net-based economy. "Sun is committed to its NetDynamics technology, its pragmatic business proposition, and even more so to its proven ability to deliver business value, so we're making NetDynamics software the key component of Sun's enterprise software business," said Alan Baratz, president of Sun's Java Software. "To address the heterogeneous nature of today's enterprise environments, Sun will offer customers a best-of-breed software solution on multiple hardware and software platforms. With NetDynamics, we're best positioned to address enterprise environments at the high end, consumer devices at the low end, and to tie in everything in between." More Enterprise Customer Deals and Successful Deployments After the intent to acquire NetDynamics, Inc. was announced, FedEx selected the NetDynamics application server for some of its corporate applications running on Solaris, Windows NT and HP-UX systems, Countrywide Home Loans standardized on the NetDynamics product for all of its future Windows NT applications, and Telstra - Australia's largest telco - chose it for applications across HP-UX, Solaris and Windows NT. In addition, Sun announced that GetSmart.com, the online marketplace for consumer and business borrowing, has successfully deployed its Web application with NetDynamics products on Sun Enterprise(TM) hardware. (see accompanying announcements at http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/). A NetDynamics Option for Every Sun Server Sun will make the NetDynamics product available as a bundle add-on to all Sun servers running the Solaris(TM) operating environment. This natural pairing of software and hardware will broaden the reach of the NetDynamics product into more enterprise accounts and make it easier for customers to quickly implement enterprise application server solutions. The NetDynamics software bundle option will be available through Sun's sales forces, and also will be available through Sun hardware that is authorized for the NetDynamics product line. Extending Functionality with Inprise VisiBroker ITS License After the intent to acquire NetDynamics was announced, Sun agreed to license Inprise's VisiBroker Integrated Transaction Service (ITS), an object-oriented transaction monitor for distributed applications. The agreement enhances the NetDynamics product's transactional capabilities in addition to its previously announced integration options with technologies including Hitachi's TP Broker, BEA TUXEDO A TP monitor from BEA Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (www.beasys.com) that runs on a variety of Unix-based computers. Originally developed by AT&T and sold as source code, Novell acquired it, enhanced it and offered it as shrink-wrapped software for various Unix servers. and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) CICS (Customer Information Control System) A TP monitor from IBM that was originally developed to provide transaction processing for IBM mainframes. It controls the interaction between applications and users and lets programmers develop screen displays without , and is an extension of an existing license for the VisiBroker Object Request Broker See ORB. (programming) Object Request Broker - (ORB) Part of the OMG CORBA specification, an ORB's basic function is to pass method invocation requests to the correct objects and return the results to the caller. (ORB) technology. The NetDynamics product line will be expanded in future releases to provide NetDynamics object transaction monitor capabilities, bolstering Sun's presence in the middle-tier arena (see Inprise announcement). About Sun Microsystems Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, "The Network Is The Computer(TM)," has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW), to its position as a leading provider of high quality hardware, software and services for establishing enterprise-wide intranets and expanding the power of the Internet. With more than $9 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 150 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://www.sun.com. Sun, Sun Microsystems, Java, Sun Enterprise, Solaris, NetDynamics, Java Web Server, Java Embedded Server, and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. -0- Editor's Note: Sun Teleconference on Oct. 21, 1 - 2 p.m. PST Reservation number: 10696927 Domestic: 888-209-3907 International: 415-904-7334 Postview: Begins 3 p.m., Oct. 21, Ends 5 p.m., Oct. 23 Domestic: 800-633-8284 International: 303-248-1201 Reservation number: 1696927 (different than Reservation number above) |
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