“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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