As a result of the arrangement, Sun customers will be able to synchronize popular
desktop applications such as Desktop Mail and Calendar Manager with their Palm Computing
platform devices including the 3Com Palm III and PalmPilot Professional Edition
connected organizers, helping them to be more effective and organized whether at
their desks, at home or on the road. Sun will initially develop conduits to synchronize
Sun platform-based workstations with the core applications resident on the Palm
Computing family of products - Address Book, Date Book, Memo Pad and PalmMail.
The agreement with Palm will simplify the lives of customers such as engineers
who have Sun workstations in the office and PCs at home. Those users can now employ
one of many Palm Computing platform products to shuttle information between computers,
making notes, managing projects and schedules and leveraging productivity applications,
such as the address manager, regardless of location or platform.
"This relationship with Sun is significant to 3Com in that it expands our
world-leading Palm Computing platform to an important new set of customers,"
said Mark Bercow, vice president of strategic alliances and platform development
for Palm Computing. "Because more people use our HotSync technology than any
other synchronization technology in the world, relationships with industry leaders
such as Sun bring 3Com closer to our goal of providing universal data compatibility
between all types of computing products."
"Sun realizes that handheld computing devices of all types are becoming an
important part of the daily lives of our customers worldwide," said Ken Okin,
vice president and general manager, workstation products at Sun Microsystems, Inc.
"By providing the industry-standard synchronization technology with Sun workstations,
we can offer these customers a mobile extension to their critical desktop applications,
making them more productive."
With more than 200 million customers worldwide, 3Com Corporation connects more
people to information in more ways than any other networking company. 3Com delivers
innovative information access products and network system solutions to large, medium
and small enterprises; carriers and network service providers; PC OEMs; and consumers.
3Com - More connectedTM. For further information, visit 3Com's World Wide Web site
at http://www.3com.com or the Palm Computing site
at http://www.palm.com.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, "The Network Is The ComputerTM,"
has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW), to its position as a leading
provider of high quality hardware, software and services for establishing enterprise-wide
intranets and expanding the power of the Internet. With more than $10 billion in
annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 150 countries and on the World Wide
Web at http://sun.com.
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about Sun Microsystems and 3Com Corp. are available on the Internet via the World
Wide Web using a tool such as Netscape Navigator or Sun's HotJavaTM browser. Type
http://sun.com or http://www.3Com.com
at the URL prompt.
3Com, HotSync and Palm Computing are registered trademarks,
and Palm, Palm III and PalmPilot are trademarks of 3Com Corporation or its subsidiaries.
All other brands and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of the
companies with which they are associated. No products mentioned herein are manufactured
by Pilot Corporation or Pilot Corporation of America, manufacturers and distributors
of writing instruments.
Sun, the Sun logo, Sun Microsystems, Java, HotJava and "The Network Is The
Computer" are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
in the United States and in other countries.
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