Sun's products snapped up by into banks, other financial institutions and medical imagining companies.
Sun Microsystems's JAVA supports BANKS
"Delivering on the future of banking today, Sun Microsystems, Inc. revealed that SunConnect™, its Java™ technology based framework for on-line delivery of transactional services, has attracted strong early support in the banking industry. In recent months, nearly a dozen major institutions have joined the growing number of banks and brokerages implementing aspects of the Sun Connect framework in their corporate enterprises, and more than 20 independent software vendors (ISVs) from around the world are embracing it as part of future development plans."
Sun Microsystems supports financial institutions, like Philadelpahia Stock Exchange
Philadelphia Stock Exchange Relies On Solaris 7 for
Competitive Advantage
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 1998--
Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced that the Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX) plans to complete their deployment of the newly released Solaris(tm) 7 Operating Environment -- running on Sun's powerful, low cost Ultra(tm) 5 workstations and highly scalable Sun Enterprise(tm) 3000 and 4500 servers -- by the second quarter of 1999.
Relying on Sun systems since 1989, the Philadelphia Stock Exchange has experienced year-to-date growth of 40 percent in equity option trading with an all-time record of more than 28 million contracts."
[Example of SUN's reputation with loyal customers. The Philadelphia Exchange has been using SUNW products since 1989. Customer loyalty is one of the reasons I bought SUNW stock, in the first place. The other reason was: SUNW produces high-end products for critical applications ,]
SUN uses Java to support Medical Imaging
Sun Microsystems Extends Java(TM) Technology
Support for PACS Review Stations And Advanced Medical Visualization
Solutions
Sun's Java Imaging Solutions Support Gray Scale Visuals, Fast Look-Ups And Complex Image Processing in Medical Imaging
PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 1 / -- Sun Microsystems today announced that it has significantly enhanced its Java™ technology over the past year to better support the growing number of advanced image processing solutions being used by medical imaging and radiology professionals and organizations worldwide. Enhancements to the technology that will benefit the medical imaging and radiology community include support for static gray visuals; fast lookup and retrieval of 8- and 12-bit images; and the availability of an early access version of the Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) Application Programming Interface (API) object library.
''Last year, medical imaging professionals were crying out for support from Java technology for advanced image processing functions,'' said Bruce Elder, healthcare industry manager, Sun Microsystems. ''Today, we are able to deliver it to them. Less than 12 months later, we are providing the support that these professionals need to incorporate Java technology into their
mission-critical image processing solutions"
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