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:
If your business would benefit from lowering costs and simplifying system administration,
the Solaris 10 Operating System is the ideal cross-platform choice. Supported on more than 900
platforms and with more applications available than any other open operating system,
Solaris 10 can span your entire enterprise. And Sun guarantees complete binary compatibility from
release to release and source code compatibility from platform to platform, providing protection for your software investments.
Manage the availability of applications services, and data across local, regional, and vastly dispersed datacenters using Solaris Cluster, the core of the Java Availability Suite, a multi-system, multi-site disaster recovery solution.
Become a part of the worldwide community of developers creating and improving operating system technology through OpenSolaris
Virtualization
Sun can help you to enjoy the benefits of virtualization – from the datacenter to the desktop.
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
Java Enterprise System
Reduce the cost and complexity of acquiring software with the Java Enterprise System.
Java ES is a comprehensive set of subscription-based services that combines software,
support, professional services, and educational services in a single package, for a single price.
It is available as a single, fully integrated, end-to-end infrastructure software portfolio or as
individual solution Suites that specifically target critical business needs.
The Java System Suites provide multiple entry points to get started with Sun's enterprise
infrastructure software, enabling you to address current business problems and build toward
a comprehensive solution by adding additional Suites.
The Java ES Base includes a range of Sun software that provides the following advantages:
Control costs and minimize the security risks of conducting business more openly with Access Manager, which provides open, standards-based access control, single sign-on and federation services
Gain the perfect platform for implementing SOA and 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
Effectively manage identities in growing and dynamic environments using Directory Server Enterprise Edition, a secure, highly available, scalable, and easy-to-manage directory infrastructure
Get the scalability, reliability, and advanced security necessary for large-scale enterprise deployments with Sun Java System Message Queue, a leading business integration messaging server
Enable users and groups to work together easily and securely within a dynamic organizational structure through Sun Java System Portal Server
Manage the availability of applications services and data across local, regional and vastly dispersed datacenters using Solaris Cluster, the core of the Java Availability Suite, a multi-system, multi-site disaster recovery solution
Get high-performance, optimizing C, C++, and Fortran compilers for the Solaris OS on SPARC, and both Solaris and Linux on x86/x64 platforms with Sun Studio
For those organizations not ready to implement the full Java Enterprise System, Java System Suites include:
Sun Java Application Platform Suite, which enables the quick assembly of communities and data sharing through a service-oriented architecture
Sun Java Availability Suite delivers a subscription based license to Solaris Cluster which provide a multi-system, multi-site disaster recovery solution.
Sun Java B2B Suite, which enables organizations to securely automate and manage system-to-system communications among trading partners
Sun Java ESB Suite, which simplifies complex and costly messaging infrastructures by providing an advanced distributed enterprise service bus
Sun Java Web Infrastructure Suite, which helps organizations improve Web security, strengthen online relationships with their customers, and reduce web operations costs
Sun Java Communications Suite delivers industry-leading email, calendaring and real-time collaboration functionality for service providers and large organizations
Identity Management
Manage, protect, store, verify, and share identity information throughout the organization and across extranets with the industry's leading solutions.
Provide access control, single sign-on and federation services using Access Manager
Manage digital identities across corporate boundaries with Federation Manager
Streamline access control and identity compliance by engineering and managing roles with Role Manager
Business Integration
Speed time-to-market and be ready to quickly take advantage of new competitive opportunities
by easily extending existing applications, building and deploying new custom applications or
licensing and implementing new packaged applications — all while keeping costs low.
Read the Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite data sheet
Enjoy improved information visibility and business agility through the creation of an SOA
Access a free, open source, commercial-grade implementation of Java EE 5 through Glassfish, a structured environment for developing an open source application server compliant with Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 5
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