Today's IT solutions must reduce complexity and cost; improve manageability; and be available, scalable and secure. Sun makes the grade with a selection of x86 offerings - incorporating and innovating new technology, and delivering more value with every system.
Additionally, Sun's subscription pricing has put competitors on the defensive:
Sun is committed to offering its Software products both on Solaris and Linux. Sun's pioneering Java Enterprise System will be available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux in our next release. Several Sun ONE products are already available on earlier versions of Red Hat Linux.
Sun's Opteron systems offer market-leading price performance:
The Sun Fire V20z server achieved world-record results on recent
industry-standard benchmarks for secure
web serving, Oracle Application Server 10g, and SAP applications.
The Sun Fire V40z server recently proved to be the best performing 4-processor secure Web server and enterprise
applications platform, outperforming a comparable server configured with Xeon MP processors by 76 percent,
according to a SPECweb99_SSL benchmark.
Sun offers robust and secure products to develop and deploy Web Services on Linux:
Sun Java Creator delivers the
first 100% Java visual development tool and the most complete
learn/develop/deploy solution for Web apps. Built on NetBeans 3.6 for
production-proven IDE power.
Sun hardware and software used together with Java provide an integrated and optimized security and identity
management platform for web services. An optional cryptographic framework and Java Cards can further strengthen web service infrastructure to
meet physical and online security, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
Sun Ray is a secure and stateless thin
client. With no applications, data, or OS at the desktop, companies create
a desktop environment that is secure and easy to manage.
StarOffice/OpenOffice.org deployments continue to grow worldwide - 38.5 million cumulative downloads!
Sun's best and most exciting products are now available for the Linux community with "Commercial Grade" security, identity management, manageability, scalability, and enterprise-class 24/7/365 support.
Control Station - Sun Control Station can deploy, monitor and update large numbers of Linux servers and Sun Java Desktop environments, thus increasing uptime and system administrator productivity.
Sun N1 Service Provisioning System enables administrators to automatically deploy, configure, and update network services.
Sun supports Java Desktop System, SuSE, and Red Hat Linux, as well as Solaris, on Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron systems.
Sun Ray thin clients are now available on Linux, making it easy to "Sun Ray enable" existing Linux environments.
Solaris development has a long history of building in common APIs, commands, tools, libraries and utilities.
Linux and Solaris applications are compatible today using Java technologies and common interfaces and tools, such as lxrun and Linux Compatibility Toolkit (LinCAT).
Sun's continues its commitment to the open source community:
Sun recently announced open sourcing of
Project Looking Glass, which explores a richer user experience for Linux
desktops and applications via 3D windowing and visualization capabilities.
Sun is the largest commercial contributor to the open source community,
the second biggest overall after University of California, Berkeley.
Sun is one of the largest contributors
of intellectual property to the
open source community. Sun is also a member of the Free Standards Group
(Linux Standards organization), Open Source Development Lab (OSDL), and a Sun
employee is co-chairing the Linux internationalization effort (Li18nux).
Community
Linux and Java communities are cross-pollinating exciting and innovative ideas:
java.com has catalogs of Java applications for Linux.
java.com Business provides Linux developers/ISVs an opportunity to market their Java-based applications/products to enterprise IT.
Project Looking Glass is a 3D desktop being developed by the open source in Java for the Linux.
Open source JXTA technology allows Linux
developers to create peer-to-peer applications in Java or C languages.
Developers
Commercial-Grade Developers Succeed with Sun:
TRAINING: Sun Developer Network and Software Express are the always-on paths for
connecting to Sun's innovation lifeline. More than 800,000 developers
already leverage their development skills across all Linux, Solaris SPARC and
Solaris x86 environments.
TOOLS: Sun's developer tools provide the
ideal environment for developing new
applications and integrating new capabilities
into existing Linux services.
Sun Java Studio Enterprise 7
Sun Java Studio Creator - new visual development tool
Sun Studio 9: native development tools
Net Beans IDE 4.0
N1 Grid Tool Kit
Recent Linux Milestones
Sun Java Workstation W1100z and W2100z and the Sun Fire V20z and V40z server announcements offer Linux
users high performance 32 and 64-bit Opteron workstations and servers for industry-leading, no-compromise performance.
Sun Java Enterprise System, with more than 300,000 licenses sold, is now available on Linux (RHEL)
as of June 2004. Includes enterprise messaging, calendar, email, portal, directory, application server and printing services.
Sun's extensive and award-winning developer tools are now available for Linux, including the
exciting new visual development environment: Sun Java Creator, Java Studio Standard, Sun Studio 9 for C, C++, and Fortran, and the N1 Toolkit.
NetBeans, open source tools to which Sun has contributed heavily, is already popular among Linux developers.
Sun Java Application Server Enterprise Edition 7 delivers 5 9s availability on Linux.
Java Desktop System Release 2 now available! Provides a fully integrated Java desktop with advanced manageability and auto-update features.
Sun Java Desktop System is now available at Walmart.com on Microtel Computer Systems personal computers (PCs) 04/22/04.
Sun's Identity Management product line provides provisioning, meta-directory, federation, SAML support, and enterprise level directory services for Linux customers.
Project Looking Glass Hideya Kawahara was nominated "Innovators To Watch In 2005" by Infoworld, 05/25/04
