Sun Microsystems' new generation of software for open, smart, web services, Sun One, is a clear statement of the company's commitment to delivering on its vision.
This is according to Stefano Mattiello, managing director at Sun Microsystems SA, who says Sun One provides a complete open architecture, roadmap and product portfolio fulfilling the company's seven-year Service Driven Network vision.
"It's an operational plan for simplifying the way in which open web services are created, assembled and deployed across and beyond the Internet. It will result in greater productivity and lower costs for businesses, faster time-to-service and increased market opportunity for developers, and an enriched user experience for consumers.
"Sun is focused on executing on its vision and this new product portfolio is a clear demonstration of this commitment. It's all about meeting customer demands and being able to produce the goods," says Mattiello.
Scott McNealy, chairman and CEO at Sun Microsystems announced at the launch of Sun One that smart web services are to the Information Age what interchangeable parts were to the Industrial Age. "We're on the brink of an explosion of services that will flourish in this free market and bring simpler, easier, smarter services to every man, woman and child."
The major elements of the announcement include:
The industry's most comprehensive product offerings to create, assemble and deploy web services today, plus roadmaps for the Sun One portfolio extending out two years;
Breakthrough and extended products, including the Sun One Webtop technology developer release and iPlanet Directory, Web, Application, Portal, Commerce and Communication Servers;
Specifics of the Sun One architecture, based on open standards, which provides a clear and simple set of practices to build and deploy web services today;
An operational plan to extend web services to the next level of intelligence based on context - smart web services that can modify their behaviour based on identity of the requester, as well as his or her location, timing and permissions.
Mattiello points out that Sun helped take applications to the network when it introduced the Java platform. "We contributed to the creation of XML as the de facto open data format for the network. Now we're going to bring context to web services and make them smarter."
At the heart of the recent announcements is a focus on simplicity for developers, businesses and consumers.
Sun One is based on Sun's extensive experience in meeting the needs of major global enterprises and provides developers with an immediate opportunity to create open, reliable, scalable web services.
The suite comprises a development environment, application and technology building blocks and an infrastructure platform that provides the most complete product offering on the market today for the creation, assembly and deployment of these web services.
With a $3 billion investment in software and over 10,000 employees dedicated to software development and support, Sun One provides software developers and customers the technology and products they require to be competitive on the Net.
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