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Sun Launches the NetDynamics 5 Application Server as the Linchpin for the New Portal Computing Model
New Product Line Provides Record-setting Scalability and Triples the Number of Enterprise Integration Options
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 10, 1999-- Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced the NetDynamics(TM) 5 application server platform, which sets a new standard for application servers.
The NetDynamics 5 product delivers record-setting scalability and performance, triple the number of enterprise integration options, and fastest time to portal -- the ability to develop and deploy applications more quickly. The NetDynamics 5 product line offers customers an application server solution that can integrate business processes and deliver them as applications on the Internet.
``In much the same way that consumer portals aggregate information and simple applications, the NetDynamics 5 product extends the portal metaphor to businesses by allowing them to integrate and host corporate applications on the Internet,'' said Dr. Alan Baratz, president of Sun Microsystems' Java Software.
``Business portals offer competitive advantage in the network economy through the new portal computing model enabled by application servers, and the NetDynamics 5 application server is the most scalable, robust application server engine behind business portals.''
Sun Redefines the Application Server
To date, application servers have evolved as point products to address specific information technology challenges. While some offerings focus on development, they lack in scalability. Some products provide scalability and integration, but no rapid application development. Other application servers provide development and scalability, but cannot deliver enterprise integration.
The NetDynamics 5 application server is a proven product line in all three areas -- scalable deployment, enterprise integration and rapid application development -- to address the new portal computing model.
Emergence of the Portal Computing Model
Portal computing differs from what most people associate with the term ``portal.'' Portal computing integrates business processes to connect customers, partners, suppliers, and employees, and is an evolution from client-server and Web computing.
While client-server computing suffered from the inability to connect client computers to heterogeneous systems across the enterprise, its successor -- Web computing -- required special, time-consuming programming to connect Web servers to each of these heterogeneous systems.
Today, portal computing alleviates many of these problems because it offers a middle-tier application layer that provides the glue between clients and backend systems across multiple hardware and software platforms.
The NetDynamics 5 Product Sets the Standard for Portal Computing
The NetDynamics 5 application server provides a proven solution to meet three portal computing requirements. First, the NetDynamics 5 product helps customers deploy scalable, highly available portal applications to more users.
Second, it supplies multiple cross-platform options -- uniting the worlds of Internet standards, the Java(TM) platform, Microsoft technologies and products, and existing enterprise systems.
Lastly, it allows organizations to develop and deploy portal applications more quickly with limited developer resources -- providing fastest time to portal.
``The NetDynamics application server is providing FedEx with faster time-to-market for key projects,'' said Rob Carter, corporate vice president and chief technology officer of FDX Corp. ``NetDynamics 5 takes us even further down this path by introducing significant new programming services available through Enterprise JavaBeans.''
Beyond Mega-Site Scalability; Recent Performance Testing
The NetDynamics 5 application server is designed to support enterprise portal applications that scale from thousands of simultaneous users on large multi-processing servers to hundreds of thousands of simultaneous users on high-end server clusters.
In an internal Sun performance test modeled after a currently proposed industry benchmark, the NetDynamics 5 application server running on a Sun Enterprise(TM) 10000 server, popularly known as the Starfire(TM) server, delivered more than 1,500 Web-to-database transactions per second and more than 2,600 Web interactions (Web page views) per second. The second figure is equivalent to more than 225 million Web interactions per day.
As a point of reference, Yahoo! reported 167 million page views in December 1998 (source: http://www.yahoo.com/docs/pr/release259.html). In other words, the scalability of the NetDynamics 5 product on the Starfire server can support more Web interactions than the Internet's largest Web portal with room to spare.
The performance testing proves that the NetDynamics 5 application server sets a new standard for scalability with the ability to power the Internet's largest Web portals.
Service Provider Robustness Based on a Proven Architecture
The NetDynamics 5 server delivers ``Web always on'' robustness, required by service providers and global enterprises, with data center availability, failover, a full security framework including encryption, authentication, and authorization -- in addition to application-level security. It provides real-time administration with the unique ability to upgrade and install new applications without system downtime, and full management of the server, either locally or remotely.
In addition, the NetDynamics 5 product provides a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) interface for integration with leading enterprise management products, enabling complete end-to-end management for enterprise portal applications.
The new release provides an advanced, fully distributed Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) infrastructure that is cross-platform and supports multi-machine and multi-tier load balancing.
It includes optimized resource management, caching, pooling, and thread management with distributed transaction support from the Java Transaction Service(TM) (JTS) transaction management tool. This robust, fifth-generation application server is the reason the NetDynamics 5 server offers best-in-class Enterprise JavaBeans(TM) technology deployment.
Triple the Number of Enterprise Integration Options
The NetDynamics 5 open architecture promotes heterogeneous integration with native connectivity to all the major databases, and support for multiple object component technologies, including CORBA, Enterprise JavaBeans, and Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM).
With these models as a foundation and the existing NetDynamics
Platform Adapter Component (PAC) approach, Sun now offers the
industry's most comprehensive enterprise software integration solution
for business portals. With Sun's new NetDynamics PAC for Microsoft's
COM technology, the NetDynamics 5 product provides end-to-end
integration with the following products and technologies:
-- COM services and components -- Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) -- COM clients, Microsoft tools -- Windows NT -- Internet Explorer -- Internet Information Server (IIS) -- Microsoft SQL server
With a CORBA architecture fully supporting Enterprise JavaBeans
technology and integration with COM technology, only Sun provides
customers the unique ability to combine all three component models
with the NetDynamics 5 environment. In addition, new PACs support the
following products and technologies:
-- Extensible Markup Language (XML)
-- Mail
-- Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
-- IBM's Customer Information Control System (CICS)
-- IBM's Information Management System (IMS)
-- IBM's MQSeries
-- IBM's AS/400
Sun will continue to offer NetDynamics PACs for both SAP R/3 and PeopleSoft applications, and the NetDynamics PAC Software Development Kit (SDK) for custom integration with packaged applications, mainframe applications, and legacy environments.
A new NetDynamics 5 PAC SDK supports Online Analytical Processing (OLAP), search, object database interfaces and Structured Query Language (SQL) for decision support applications, and a PAC SDK for PAC-to-PAC communication. In addition, Sun will integrate the NetDynamics server with Jini technology.
Fastest Time to Portal
The NetDynamics 5 development environment provides the fastest time to portal -- the low-risk creation of more applications more quickly. The NetDynamics 5 Studio offers a complete and powerful development environment and provides seamless Enterprise JavaBeans support and Microsoft COM integration with databases, CORBA services and other data sources via PACs.
The NetDynamics 5 Studio is a single development environment that promotes reusability and spans application types and skill sets, making it a solid environment upon which to standardize across an enterprise.
The NetDynamics 5 Studio environment provides the most complete Java Object Framework infrastructure with end-to-end debugging and seamless, team development. It offers full application ``lifecycle'' through integration with third-party tools, and NetDynamics Platform Adapter Components (PACs) tightly integrated with visual development.
Comprehensive Support for Java 2 and Enterprise JavaBeans
Technologies, and Industry Standards
The NetDynamics 5 product line is based on the latest release of the Java 2 platform and Enterprise JavaBeans 1.0 technology combined with a proven, robust CORBA application server infrastructure. The NetDynamics 5 application server provides a comprehensive, end-to-end Enterprise JavaBeans technology-based solution spanning development, deployment and integration with the enterprise.
With the NetDynamics 5 offering, Sun supports more industry standards than any other vendor; these standards include Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)-Interactive Mail Access Protocol (IMAP)/Post Office Protocol (POP), Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Agent, and Java Database Connectivity (JDBC(TM)) technology.
New Pricing Model and Availability
The NetDynamics 5 Studio product is priced at $895 and pricing for the NetDynamics 5 application server begins at $25,000 per CPU. The NetDynamics 5 application server will be available on the Solaris(TM) operating environment and Windows NT platform by the end of this month as will the PAC for COM technology. HP-UX and IBM AIX system versions and additional PACs will be available in the next 30 to 60 days.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, ``The Network Is The Computer(TM),'' has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq:SUNW - news), 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 $10.5 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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