Sun Microsystems, Inc, the creator and leading advocate of Java technology, recently announced that Osaka, Japan-based Nippon Paint Co, Ltd has purchased and plans to deploy the Sun Java Enterprise System, an integrated, open standards-based software system as its corporate-wide IT infrastructure software standard.
The Java Enterprise System software was purchased through Sun iForce Partners CSK CORPORATION (CSK) and ITOCHU TECHNO-SCIENCE Corporation (CTC), demonstrating continued partner momentum in the Asia Pacific region. Nippon Paint selected the Java Enterprise System running the secure, reliable, scalable and highly available Solaris 9 Operating System based on Sun's innovative pricing model and open architecture.
The company plans to migrate its distribution, logistics, human resources and finance applications, currently hosted by legacy mainframes, to the Java Enterprise System platform by 2006.
By adopting the Java Enterprise System, Nippon Paint expects to reduce operational costs associated with system management and upgrades, and increase time-to-market of new applications and technologies. Nippon Paint will also benefit from an open standards-based architecture, ensuring interoperability and more proactive and productive management.
Additionally, through this migration, Nippon Paint projects the transition will cut its total cost of ownership by 50%.
Nippon Paint plans to utilise the following Java Enterprise System components including the Java System Directory Server, Java System Identity Server, Java System Portal Server, Java System Messaging Server and Java System Web Server. Additionally, Nippon Paint plans to leverage Sun's robust hardware platforms such as the Sun Fire B100s blade servers for front-end applications, the Sun Fire V480/V440/V240 servers for application processing, and the Sun Fire V1280 and V880 servers for database operations.
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Nippon Paint has been in business for 123 years and one of the pioneers of the Japanese modern paint industry. With its latest technology, providing such as super high coat material, hyper waterproof paint, and polarising paint, Nippon Paint is playing an active role as total paint material manufacturing enterprise. Featuring environment-conscious paint material such as water-based recyclable paint system and powder coating system, Nippon Paint is actively contributing conservation of the global environment as the leader of the industry.
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