40 Percent of the Fortune 100 Use Alliance Software for Integration in the Net
Economy; Alliance Also Introduces Netscape Application Server - Process
Automation Edition and Netscape ECXpert 3.0
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sun-Netscape Alliance
(Alliance) today unveiled iPlanet(TM) Commerce Integration Suite, a new suite
of e-commerce application and server software that enables companies to build
and deploy online trading communities that tie together customers, partners
and suppliers and leverage existing systems internally and cross corporate
boundaries. The Sun-Netscape Alliance also announced Netscape(R) Application
Server -- Process Automation Edition for automating cross-company business
processes and Netscape(R) ECXpert 3.0, an upgrade to the Alliance's leading
commerce exchange application. These new solutions, in addition to existing
integration solutions built on Netscape Application Server and Netscape(R)
Directory Server, bring integration to the next level by enabling companies to
leverage their existing applications, transact business with their customers,
partners and suppliers, and automate and manage cross-company processes in the
Net Economy.
The Sun-Netscape Alliance also announced today a broad range of industry
adoption and support for its Net Economy integration solutions. Over
40 percent of the Fortune 100 use Alliance e-commerce applications and
Internet infrastructure software to leverage their existing systems and power
their Internet businesses, as well as build trading communities that tie
together their customers, partners and suppliers. In addition, five of the
top 10 banks and eight of the top 10 telecommunications companies use Alliance
software to integrate their businesses in the Net Economy. Companies such as
AOL, AXA Sun Life, FranceTelecom, GTE, MCI, Sabre, Singapore NETS, and Tirea
are using Sun-Netscape Alliance software to move their existing business
processes online to meet the demands of customers, partners and suppliers.
"Companies today are looking to the Sun-Netscape Alliance to build trading
communities that leverage their internal assets, as well as move their
processes online and connect to their partners, suppliers and customers," said
Steve Savignano, senior vice president and general manager for the
Sun-Netscape Alliance e-commerce division. "The success of our customers
provides powerful evidence of the vast benefits and potential for the
Sun-Netscape Alliance's offering for integration in the Net Economy."
The Sun-Netscape Alliance provides a comprehensive, fully integrated
portfolio of products to meet the requirements for integration in the Net
Economy. It includes broad support for extensible mark-up language (XML) for
cross-company business exchange, and the Java(TM) 2 Enterprise Edition
development environment, specifically Java(TM) Messaging Services (JMS), a
unified user management and Internet level security, and a high performance
and scalable integration environment.
The new iPlanet Commerce Integration Suite provides customers with a
complete solution to build and deploy e-commerce applications that tightly
integrate with internal applications and external trading communities. The
solutions provides companies with the ability to automate manual cross-company
business processes with customers, build collaborative business processes with
customers and partners, connect to low-tech trading partners and leverage
existing assets and data. The solution leverages the power of Netscape
Application Server for building scalable applications that integrate with
existing applications, Netscape ECXpert for managing cross-company integration
and Netscape Directory Server for user management and access control. iPlanet
Commerce Integration Suite provides out of the box integration with enterprise
systems (including Tuxedo, MQSeries, CICS and IMS), enterprise resource
planning (ERP) applications and as well as tools for integrating with custom
applications. It provides broad support for communications protocols such as
XML, hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), file transfer protocol (FTP),
Electronic Data Interchange-Internet Integration, (EDIINT) and Odette File
Transfer Protocol (OFTP).
Netscape Application Server -- Process Automation Edition is a new product
focused on process integration and management. It enables companies to
develop, deploy, manage and integrate mission-critical business processes over
the Internet. Built on top of Netscape Application Server, it offers high
availability and scalability and integrates with ERP applications, mainframes
and custom applications. With Netscape Application Server -- Process
Automation Edition, customers, partners, employees and business applications
can be tied together to form new cross-company business processes.
Providing broad support for XML, Netscape ECXpert 3.0 is the latest
release of the Sun-Netscape Alliances leading application for Internet
commerce exchange. Netscape ECXpert enables companies to automate and manage
cross-company business processes over the Internet as well as existing private
networks. The product gives companies the ability to securely and reliably
exchange business-critical transactions, such as purchase orders, invoices and
forecasts, and automatically process those transactions using existing
systems.
Pricing and Availability
iPlanet Commerce Integration Suite and Netscape Application Server:
Process Automation Edition are expected to be available in November 1999.
iPlanet Commerce Integration Suite is priced at $115,000 per computer
processing unit (CPU) and Netscape Application Server: Process Automation
Edition is priced at $125,000 per CPU. ECXpert 3.0 is available now and is
priced at $75,000 per two CPU.
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 18 million members, and CompuServe,
with approximately 2 million members; several leading Internet brands
including ICQ and Digital City, Inc.; the Netscape Netcenter and AOL.COM
portals; and the Netscape Navigator and Communicator browsers. 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,"(TM) has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) 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://www.sun.com.
Netscape, Netscape Navigator and the Netscape N logo are registered
trademarks of Netscape Communications Corporation, a subsidiary of America
Online, Inc., in the United States and other countries. Sun, Sun
Microsystems, the Sun Logo, iPlanet, Java and "The Network is The Computer"
are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other
countries.
SOURCE Sun-Netscape Alliance
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