Sun Microsystems is to ship a developer's edition of an
integrated web services platform featuring Sun middleware and
development products next month.
Positioned as a Java web services stack, the package will
feature multiple Sun One (Open Net Environment)-labelled products:
Application Server, Directory Server, Identity Server, Integration
Server, Portal Server, and the Studio development tool.
Sun vice president of Java web services Mark Bauhaus said the
initial developer's release of the package was intended to spur
application development.
"Over time, we'll be increasing integration of all the
components, but what we wanted to get people started with is the
developer edition."
With the package, the name of which was not revealed, Sun aimed
to provide an easy-to-install, unified platform for Web services
deployment.
"When you buy it from Sun, you'll be able to buy it all at one
price, install it all [for] one price, and have blueprints and
guidance to install it yourself. This is unlike IBM's Web services
products, which require purchasing integration services from IBM
Global Services," Bauhaus said.
The Sun package will support deployment on Solaris, Linux,
Windows, Hewlett-Packard HP-UX, and IBM AIX.