Whether you need to quickly develop new applications, run them more securely,
connect with more customers, protect user identities, or provide a more flexible infrastructure for
your company's growth, Sun has award-winning software solutions and development tools to help make it happen, including:
Are you concerned about disaster recovery and the rising costs of protecting your data or environment? Are you forced to update your operating system to take advantage of new hardware? The Solaris Operating System, the industry's leading enterprise UNIX OS, addresses these challenges and much more. And now, you can choose between the Solaris OS, for rock-solid, long-term deployments, or the open source OpenSolaris OS, which includes the latest Solaris features and open source applications.
For datacenters. Sun xVM is a family of technologies that addresses both the virtualization of individual servers
and the unified management of physical and virtual aspects of the datacenters, simplifying management of business,
applications, and data in heterogeneous environments.
Improve the performance, scalability and reliability of applications running in your IT environment – whether on Windows, Linux, or Solaris. Sun xVM Server provides each OS with access to features previously available only on Solaris 10, such as Predictive Self Healing and Solaris ZFS
Provision and administer both physical and virtual datacenters across multi-vendor x86 and SPARC systems with the Sun xVM Ops Center
Run on a higher number of host platforms, wider number of guest
platforms, and gain a compelling feature set with the Sun xVM VirtualBox.
For the desktop. Dramatically decrease the complexity and cost of a traditional distributed fat client environment.
Get secure access to centralized Windows, UNIX, mainframe and midrange applications from a wide range of popular client devices, including Microsoft Windows PCs, Solaris OS workstations, thin clients, and mobile devices using Sun Secure Global Desktop Software
Simplify system management regardless of the OS with Sun Ray Software
For true end-to-end virtualization. Sun Virtual Desktop Solution includes Sun X64 Servers, the Solaris OS, Sun Ray technology, Secure Global Desktop Software, virtualization software, Sun Storage and Sun Services
Java
Whether you're learning to develop your first application or you're the IT director of a global business,
Sun has a complete Java software solution that can enable you to do things you've never considered possible.
Access a fully buildable implementation of the JDK in the OpenJDK Community
Build applications using Java technology, the foundation for Web and networked services, applications, platform-independent desktops, robotics, and other embedded devices
Mobile Solutions
Create, test, certify, and market applications for consumer devices using Sun's mobile software solutions.
Get a robust, flexible environment for applications running on mobile phones, pagers, PDAs, set-top boxes, and vehicle telematics systems with Java ME
Author rich, high-impact content and network-based services with JavaFX Mobile, which includes a middleware and application stack and is available to carriers, handset manufacturers, and others
Create rich media and interactive content with JavaFX Script
Shorten time-to-market with Java ME tools and toolkits, including the MSA, MIDP, CLDC, CDC, JavaCard, and NetBeans Mobility Packs
Software Infrastructure
Sun Software Infrastructure offerings provide the software and development tools you need to create, manage, and secure your application infrastructure.
Manage, protect, store, verify, and share identity information throughout the organization and across extranets with Sun Identity Management.
Develop and deliver personalized, Web-based content and services to expand your business through multiple channels with Sun Java System Application Platform.
Gain the perfect platform for implementing Web 2.0 applications with Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server, a robust, commercial, J2EE 4-compliant application server that makes building robust, scalable enterprise applications easier than ever.
Gain improved information visibility and business agility through the creation of a service-oriented architecture by using the Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite to easily extend existing applications, build and deploy new custom applications or license and implement new packaged applications ? all while keeping costs low.
Reduce the cost and complexity of acquiring software with the Java Enterprise System, a comprehensive set of subscription-based services that combines software, support, professional services, and educational services in a single package, for a single price.
Databases
Sun offers multiplatform databases with a comprehensive range of certified software, support, training, and consulting to help ensure success.
MySQL database is the world's most popular open source database because of its fast performance, high reliability, ease of use, and dramatic cost savings.
For production support, monitoring tools and database software chose MySQL Enterprise
MySQL Cluster is a fault-tolerant database clustering architecture for deploying database applications
Fully integrated into Solaris 10, PostgreSQL for Solaris has been performance-optimized and enhanced to take advantage of leading Solaris technologies
Ideal for Java developers and applications, Java DB is Sun's supported distribution of the open source Apache Derby database
Office Productivity
For an easy-to-use, full-featured, multi-platform office productivity suite at a fraction of the cost of Microsoft Office,
the StarOffice 8 Office Suite is a cost-effective, flexible alternative.
Access powerful programs for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing, database, graphics, photo editing, and Web publishing through StarOffice
Get multi-platform flexibility; StarOffice is available on the Microsoft Windows and Linux platforms as well as the Solaris OS
Download OpenOffice, a multi-platform open source project that forms the core of StarOffice, free of charge at OpenOffice.org
Systems Management
Simplify, integrate, and automate system and application deployment with Systems Management software from Sun.
Get the discovery, update, provisioning, monitoring, and reporting technologies from both Sun Connection and N1System Manager through Sun xVM Ops Center
Developer Tools
Sun enables developers to build secure applications faster with no-cost access to industry-leading tools.
Access high-performance applications and compute power instantly on a pay-per-use basis through Network.com
Manage a grid of up to ten thousand hosts and meet the scalability needs of even the largest grids with Sun Grid Engine
Run complex, compute-intensive applications on Sun systems and clusters of Sun systems using Sun HPC ClusterTools software
Develop distributed, parallel applications that leverage Sun HPC ClusterTools software and Sun Grid Engine software using the Solaris HPC Developer Preview
Drive multi-display, 3D immersive environments on Sun systems and clusters of Sun systems with graphics accelerators using Sun Scalable Visualization software
