At the first ever Sun Network conference to be held in Asia, Sun Microsystems president and CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, took the opportunity to reiterate his company's commitment to connecting everyone and everything to a worldwide network.
Sun plans to provide its customers with utility and subscription based network infrastructures. "Sun is driving this new phase in network computing through our industry-leading systems and by shifting industry economics away form today's fixed-cost models and making IT more predictable, synchronised and flexible," Schwartz said at the conference in Shanghai today.
Among the more than 30 new technology solutions launched at the conference were the Sun Preventive Services, offering customers a reduction in cost, but an increase in service levels in the datacentre; Sun Utility Computing for StorEdge Systems, delivering pay-for-use storage; the Netra 440 server, a four-way UltraSPARC server running the enterprise-class 64-bit Solaris OS;
and the Java Enerprise System Release 2 with a per-citizen pricing model for federal, state and local governments and extended support for Solaris x86 OS and Linux.
"A new era in network computing is upon us," says Schwartz. "An era in which the network is a commodity available to all, and over which innovations will unlock opportunities for Sun, our partners and customers."
He went on to take a swipe at Microsoft. "If you limit yourself to the definition of innovation provided by one company, then that's not innovation," he said, while showing off the Looking Glass 3D desktop environment developed by Sun to run on Solaris and Linux.
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