NetDynamicsTM Software Bundle for the SolarisTM Operating Environment,
Garners More Major Customers; Enhances Transactional Capabilities through Inprise
Deal PALO ALTO, CALIF. -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW)
today announced that it has completed its acquisition of NetDynamics, Inc. and has
immediately begun to change the application server landscape. Sun is making the
NetDynamicsTM application platform central to its enterprise software business.
It will serve as the foundation for a complete line of application servers that
scale applications from embedded devices to mainframes, and provide integration
with legacy systems, databases, and business applications.
Effective immediately, Sun will offer a NetDynamics software bundle option with
all Sun servers running the SolarisTM operating environment. Sun also announced
that NetDynamics continues to garner more major customer wins and successes, including
Countrywide (operating on the Windows NT system), FedEx (Solaris, HP-UX, Windows
NT), GetSmart.com (Solaris), and Telstra (HP-UX and Windows NT).
Sun acquired NetDynamics to provide the architectural foundation of the next wave
in enterprise network computing - application servers based on the JavaTM technology
platform. The NetDynamics application server platform is a proven technology and
business solution that complements the Java Web ServerTM, Java Embedded ServerTM
products, and other enterprise Java products. With NetDynamics technology, Sun delivers
a middle-tier application layer that ties together disparate operating systems,
databases, business applications, embedded devices, desktop computers, and mainframes.
The product line helps organizations more effectively connect their customers, partners,
suppliers and employees to gain competitive advantage in the Net-based economy.
"Sun is committed to its NetDynamics technology, its pragmatic business proposition,
and even more so to its proven ability to deliver business value, so we're making
NetDynamics software the key component of Sun's enterprise software business,"
said Alan Baratz, president of Sun's Java Software. "To address the heterogeneous
nature of today's enterprise environments, Sun will offer customers a best-of-breed
software solution on multiple hardware and software platforms. With NetDynamics,
we're best positioned to address enterprise environments at the high end, consumer
devices at the low end, and to tie in everything in between."
More Enterprise Customer Deals
and Successful Deployments
After the intent to acquire NetDynamics, Inc. was announced,
FedEx selected the NetDynamics application server for some of its corporate applications
running on Solaris, Windows NT and HP-UX systems, Countrywide Home Loans standardized
on the NetDynamics product for all of its future Windows NT applications, and Telstra
- Australia's largest telco - chose it for applications across HP-UX, Solaris and
Windows NT. In addition, Sun announced that GetSmart.com, the online marketplace
for consumer and business borrowing, has successfully deployed its Web application
with NetDynamics products on Sun EnterpriseTM hardware. (see accompanying announcements
at http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/).
A NetDynamics Option for Every
Sun Server
Sun will make the NetDynamics product available as a bundle
add-on to all Sun servers running the SolarisTM operating environment. This natural
pairing of software and hardware will broaden the reach of the NetDynamics product
into more enterprise accounts and make it easier for customers to quickly implement
enterprise application server solutions. The NetDynamics software bundle option
will be available through Sun's sales forces, and also will be available through
Sun hardware that is authorized for the NetDynamics product line.
Extending Functionality with
Inprise VisiBroker ITS License
After the intent to acquire NetDynamics was announced, Sun
agreed to license Inprise's VisiBroker Integrated Transaction Service (ITS), an
object-oriented transaction monitor for distributed applications. The agreement
enhances the NetDynamics product's transactional capabilities in addition to its
previously announced integration options with technologies including Hitachi's TP
Broker, BEA TUXEDO and IBM CICS, and is an extension of an existing license for
the VisiBroker Object Request Broker (ORB) technology. The NetDynamics product line
will be expanded in future releases to provide NetDynamics object transaction monitor
capabilities, bolstering Sun's presence in the middle-tier arena (see Inprise announcement).
About Sun Microsystems
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 $9 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found
in more than 150 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://www.sun.com.
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