Over 40 Percent of the Fortune 50 Companies Use Netscape Application Server
To Power Their Internet Businesses
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sun-Netscape Alliance
(Alliance) today announced Netscape(R) Application Server 4.0, the industry's
fastest, most scalable application server for deploying non-stop, large,
transactional e-commerce sites. Expected to ship in August, Netscape
Application Server 4.0 is a key milestone in the Alliance application server
strategy for delivering the industry leading application server solution and
its vision for fulfilling next-generation requirements for e-commerce. The
Alliance also announced Netscape(R) Application Builder 4.0 development
environment for building enterprise-class applications.
Over 40 percent of the Fortune 50 use Netscape Application Server to power
their businesses. In addition, four of the top five banks and four of the top
five telecommunications companies leverage Netscape Application Server for
their online applications. The product is also used by half of the top ten
most trafficked financial services Internet sites. Companies such as Cable
& Wireless HKT, drkoop.com, Inc., GTE, National Discount Brokers, Oakley and
Pegasus Systems are using Netscape Application Server to move their business
processes online to meet the demands of customers, partners and suppliers.
"In the first 100 days of the Sun-Netscape Alliance, we have seen
tremendous momentum for Netscape Application Server with the best quarter for
the product to date," said Stuart Wells, senior vice president and general
manager of Internet infrastructure products for the Sun-Netscape Alliance.
"Netscape Application Server 4.0 furthers the Alliance leadership position in
the application server market, continues to maintain customer commitments and
delivers the quality customers have come to expect."
Netscape Application Server 4.0 continues to provide the high performance,
high availability, legacy integration and manageability capabilities that
enterprises need to build and deploy massively-scalable, mission-critical
business-to-business and business-to-consumer e-commerce applications in the
Net Economy. Netscape Application Server 4.0 adds additional features and
functionality such as:
* Standards-based application model -- supports Enterprise JavaBeans(TM),
Java Server Page(TM) technology (JSP), JDBC and the Java(TM) Servlet
API.
* Distributed transaction support -- tight integration with IBM TX Series
enables high performance and centralized management. Supports data
integrity across the Enterprise JavaBeans architecture and heterogeneous
data sources.
* Enhanced performance and scalability -- significant performance
optimization to the core server, as well as new self-tuning load balance
option.
* Bulletproof availability -- in addition to the existing distributed
state and session management features, failover functionality now
extends to the new application programming model.
* Enterprise-class administration -- Multiple system management options
now include support for SNMP, Netscape Console, as well as Netscape
Application Server Administrator.
Netscape Application Builder 4.0 provides the development environment for
building high-performance e-commerce applications. The latest version of
Netscape Application Builder provides an Enterprise Java Beans wizard,
presentation wizards, database wizard and a template editor all using a
standard component model. Netscape Application Builder is also interoperable
with third party tools such as Symantec Visual Cafe and Macromedia
Dreamweaver.
Pricing and Availability
Netscape Application Server 4.0 is expected to ship in August and is
priced at $35,000 per CPU. Netscape Application Builder 4.0 is expected to
ship in September and is priced at $1,295 per developer seat. Netscape
Application Server 4.0 and Netscape Application Builder 4.0 will continue to
support multiple hardware platforms.
About the Sun-Netscape Alliance
America Online, Inc. (NYSE: AOL) and Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW)
formed the Sun-Netscape Alliance to provide easy to deploy, comprehensive
enterprise and e-commerce solutions to business partners and other companies
competing in today's Net Economy. The Alliance product portfolio provides
customers with the industry's most scalable, integrated infrastructure
software and a family of production ready e-commerce applications. The
products are offered on the industry's most widely available product
platforms, including DEC, HP, IBM, Linux, SGI, Microsoft Windows, and Sun. The
alliance software product portfolio includes: messaging and calendar,
collaboration, web, application, directory, and certificate servers. The
Alliance also offers a family of production-ready applications for e-commerce,
including commerce exchange, procurement, selling, and billing.
About America Online, Inc.
Founded in 1985, America Online, Inc., based in Dulles, Virginia, is the
world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies, and
e-commerce services. America Online, Inc. operates: two worldwide Internet
services, America Online, with more than 17 million members, and CompuServe,
with approximately 2 million members; several leading Internet brands
including ICQ, AOL Instant Messenger and Digital City, Inc.; the Netscape
Netcenter and AOL.COM portals; the Netscape Navigator and Communicator
browsers; and AOL MovieFone, the nation's largest movie listing guide and
ticketing service. Through its strategic alliance with Sun Microsystems, the
Company develops and offers easy-to-deploy, end-to-end e-commerce and
enterprise solutions for companies operating in the Net Economy.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, The Network is The
Computer, has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. 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 $11 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than
150 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com.
NOTE: Netscape and the Netscape N logo are registered trademarks of
Netscape Communications Corporation in the United States and other countries.
Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun Logo, Java, Enterprise JavaBeans, JavaServer
Pages and iPlanet are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United
States and other countries.
SOURCE Sun-Netscape Alliance
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