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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E_K_S who wrote (50008)	6/26/2002 7:51:56 PM
From: E_K_S	Respond to of 64865

Here is an example of one of SUNW's customers using a new integrated Web Service solution. internetweek.com Standard & Poor's Uses Web Services to Break Up Monolithic Sites From the article: "...The company is developing its software in Java 2 Enterprise Edition, and running it on Sun Microsystems iPlanet application server on about 150 Sun servers. The application is monitored by Mercury Interactive Topaz software. Standard & Poor's also plans next year to use standardized Web services interfaces to integrate its Sun-based applications with Microsoft desktop software, allowing end-users to access Standard & Poor's information using Excel, Word or PowerPoint. Standard & Poor's expects the Microsoft-Sun integration to be relatively simple, despite both companies' incomplete support of Web services standards. For example, Sun lacks its own UDDI directory. "Neither platform, the Sun ONE and .Net platform, has the whole solution, but we think between the two of them we can get a Web service out of them, as long as those two companies continue to talk to each other via SOAP. I'm hoping they will continue to support that model on an ongoing basis, but given the history of those two companies, that's always a question mark," Whitehead said..." ==================================================== What worked in 1998-2001 has changed (or is evolving) and the new "enterprise system" are integrated Web Services. The investor now must now look forward and determine if Sunw has most of the solutions or if some other vendor has the answer. From a lot of what I read, Microsoft is well positioned too with their ".Net" vision but IMO, it is more hype as both Oracle and Sunw seem to offer "real" solutions now. EKS