The importance of application servers continues to grow as they form the central engine that powers virtually all eBusiness systems. Forrester Research has ranked the offering from iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions, the Sun-Netscape Alliance company, as number one in this category.
iPlanet E-Commerce Solution's leading role in this product category was reaffirmed by its No.1 ranking in the December Application Servers eBusiness TechRankings by Forrester Research.
In its December 2000 Application Servers eBusiness TechRankings, Forresters puts puts the iPlanet Application Server product at the head of the 11 market-leading application servers researched. iPlanet outscored all other vendors in the critical areas of integration and vendor momentum and achieved one of the highest Java technology compliance scores on its way to achieving the highest overall rating.
Duncan Peruch, iPlanet sales manager at Sun Microsystems SA, says the company fully intends to extend its leadership by pushing all the components within the iPlanet Platform to even higher levels of performance and functionality.
"For even the most complex business models, our platform will get you where business needs to go in the world of e-commerce."
According to Forrester, "iPlanet...knows how to architect a product for top performance, scalability and reliability. The vendor also offers other eBusiness infrastructure, like its EAI product, iPlanet Integration Server (formerly Forte Fusion,) and it embeds industrial strength middleware.
"The product's development environment has tools for building presentation and business objects, and it integrates with other tools for building EJBs and servlets. Strong partnerships with top integrators and a significant customer base of Global 2,500 companies mean that this product is here to stay."
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