Sun Opens Doors to the Future at SunNetwork 2002
9/19/2002 - Sun Microsystems opened the door to the future for over 7,000 customers, partners and developers at the SunNetwork 2002 Conference and Pavilion. The three-day conference features over 175 technical sessions and an exhibit hall with 200 exhibitors demonstrating how Sun's technology is increasing value, driving choice and delivering innovation in the industry today.
Sun announced new products, services, and partnerships that continue its tradition of providing open, end-to-end solutions that make the Net work. The announcements span a wide variety of issues for enterprise computing including security, advanced data center design, cost effective alternatives for desktop computing and product innovation roadmaps.
Customers Make the Net Work
Sun's customers are taking advantage of greater cost efficiencies, better return on assets, more choice and flexibility and greater security in their enterprise deployments. The City of Oakland, California, has announced that it has migrated key city management applications to the Sun platform, and the Defense Manpower Datacenter (DMDC) in Monterey, California has rolled out a Common Access Card (CAC) system for all active military and Department of Defense civil servants—more than four million users nationwide. H.E. Butt Grocery Company (H-E-B) has chosen a best-of-breed solution from Sun and its partners based on the SunTM ONE platform and the SolarisTM Operating environment to build a consolidated application infrastructure for employees, customers and suppliers. The General Electric Corporation has deployed a global employee portal based on the SunTM ONE Portal Server and Sun ONE Directory Server technologies.
Highlights of the significant announcements made during the conference include:
- Industry's First Open Enterprise Client Solution: A Linux desktop solution comprised of Sun Linux, GNOME desktop, Mozilla Browser, Ximian Evolution for calendaring, StarOffice productivity suite, Sun ONE Directory Services. The new Sun Enterprise Client offering is a direct response to customer demand for a cost effective alternative to other client environments that levy high licensing fees.
- Industry's Most Comprehensive Security for Internet Computing: Over 12 announcements addressing advanced network security including the company's plans to open source its Elliptic Curve Cryptographic (ECC) technologies to the OpenSSL Project; the launch of a new iForceSM Security Solution known as the Perimeter Defense and Secure Web Server, and significant partner initiatives including the continuing momentum of partner adoption of the Sun ONE Platform for Network Identity by security partners and industry leaders.
- Advanced Data Center Design: The company outlined further details of its vision and architecture for advanced data center design that creates a single, tightly-integrated system by virtualizing all of the compute, storage, and network resources needed to deliver services. With N1, administrators have one system to manage, one system to change, without sacrificing the scalability, availability, and security of a distributed network architecture.
- Industry leading chip architecture and performance: Sun's UltraSPARC III jumps ahead of Intel and IBM with 64-bit, 130 Nanometer process technology processor that further builds its lead as the lowest cost 64-bit processor.
About SunNetwork 2002
The SunNetwork 2002 Conference and Pavilion is the only conference dedicated to showcasing end-to-end solutions from Sun and its partners that have revolutionized the Internet, networking and computing industries. SunNetwork 2002 has over 7,000 attendees at its inaugural event this week participating in over 100 technical sessions and bird of a feather sessions addressing Sun system architecture, network and computing management, services development tools and techniques. SunNetwork 2002 has been co-sponsored by SAP, Sybase, MatrixONE, PTC, Vignette and JNI Corporation and has over 140 technology exhibits demonstrating how Sun's technology is solving real-world technology and network challenges.
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 industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 170 countries.
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