InternetWeek.com: Sun Loads Up Behind Sun ONE Brand

"The move brings together a wide array of software (some home-built), but much of it picked up via acquisition. Together, it represents the first soup-to-nuts software platform--from development tools to application servers to messaging infrastructure--for a company perhaps best known for its server hardware and Solaris operating system.

"All of Sun's software will now bear the Sun ONE--short for Open Net Environment--brand name. Sun previously used the Sun ONE moniker to describe its over-arching distributed application architecture, into which the individual products now fit as piece-parts.

"The new re-branded products--all of which will bear the Sun ONE name--include the iPlanet Web, application, portal, directory, messaging, calendar, and identity servers; Forte Tools for Java development; Chili!Soft ASP, which lets Microsoft ASP code run on Java platforms; and StarOffice, the open-source alternative to Microsoft Office..."

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