Companies Across Europe Choose Sun Microsystems' Java
Posted on: Monday, 18 October 2004, 06:00 CDT
LONDON and SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. , today announced that a diverse set of customers across Sun's EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region have purchased the Sun Java(TM) Enterprise System during the last six months to help reduce the costs and complexity associated with acquiring and operating software. These customers -- which range from small and mid-sized businesses to enterprises -- include Inmarsat, Turkcell, Borsa Italiana, E-Plus, EUROCONTROL, Pixelpark AG, and Young Generation. Today's announcement builds on the tremendous demand across the globe for the Java Enterprise System, an open, integrated, standards-based software system that delivers a core set of industry-leading shared enterprise network services.
"In less than one year, there are hundreds of thousands of Java Enterprise System users worldwide, demonstrating the market demand for a simplified software licensing model," said John Loiacono, executive vice president, Software at Sun. "Sun is a systems company and innovations like the Java Enterprise System are part of our long-term strategy to help customers accelerate the delivery of new services, and unleash mobility with security to achieve sustained business advantages."
"Organizations have an increasing demand for software infrastructure technology. They can't do without it, and it has to be dependable, but the real business advantage is in the higher-level applications that depend on it," said Rob Hailstone, Director European Systems Infrastructure Software Research at IDC. "An approach to packaging and licensing that delivers a wide set of infrastructure capabilities, cost-effectively, in a manner that is very simple to implement and with minimal bureaucracy as to where and how it can be used will be very appealing to large organisations."
EMEA Customers Turn to Sun for Secure, Low-Cost Systems and Services
In the past six months, the following customers have purchased the Java Enterprise System, along with high-performance Sun hardware and services, to help meet their business and technology goals:
* Inmarsat - UK:
Inmarsat Limited has selected the Sun Java Enterprise System as the
business support infrastructure for its Broadband Global Area
Network (BGAN) service, due to commence during 2005. Inmarsat will
benefit from the Java Enterprise System's security services that
span the entire system. Security services are built in throughout
the software system and provide consistent single sign-on to online
resources whilst protecting content using the latest security
standards and resilient authentication and access control options.
* Turkcell - Turkey:
Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri A.S. (Turkcell), the largest mobile
communication provider in Turkey with over 2000 employees and 19
million customers, implemented Sun's Java Enterprise System to
ensure consistent network identity management and content delivery
to its customers
* Borsa Italiana - Italy:
Borsa Italiana organizes and manages the Italian securities market
with the participation of nearly 130 domestic and international
brokers. Borsa Italiana chose Java Enterprise System because its
simple software licensing model gives them the opportunity to
benefit from the investment quickly. Borsa Italiana will roll the
Java Enterprise System out to its 200 employees.
* E-Plus - Germany:
E-Plus, Germany's third largest cell phone provider with more than
8.2 million subscribers, chose the Sun Java Enterprise System to
replace its current infrastructure. By utilizing the Java Enterprise
System, E-Plus will be able to realize significant cost savings by
lowering licensing, maintenance and development costs. Additionally,
E-Plus will now be able to take advantage of drastically shortened
product introduction cycles of new and innovative data services.
"By leveraging the Sun Java Enterprise System, we were able to significantly reduce our operating costs," stressed Thorsten Dirks, Chief Officer, Innovations, IT and Operations, E-Plus. "In addition, we benefited from the fact that we no longer have to deal with complicated software license regulations and servicing contracts."
* EUROCONTROL - Belgium:
EUROCONTROL is an inter-governmental organization responsible for
air traffic management in Europe. With headquarters in Brussels,
Belgium, EUROCONTROL has more than 2,000 experts dedicated to
enhancing the safety, capacity and efficiency of air traffic
management. EUROCONTROL chose the Java Enterprise System to ensure
the delivery of an integrated web services portal infrastructure
incorporating robust user identity, access control and content
management elements. The portal solution allows EUROCONTROL to
aggregate and provision content, applications and services to more
than 10,000 end users based on individual and group roles and
responsibilities. The solution includes a security-rich
infrastructure based on a single directory of users with access
privileges clearly defined and administered.
* Pixelpark AG - Germany:
Pixelpark AG is a full service ITsolution provider. With only 116
employees, the company felt that Sun's Java Enterprise System
provided a consistent IT-Infrastructure for its three business units
through the use of the LDAP, mail and calendar components of the
Java Enterprise System.
* Young Generation - Italy:
Young Generation(TM) (YG) was founded in September 2003 with a focus
on the evolution of digital content and services through the
implementation of a micro-payment service to facilitate the
aggregation, the distribution and the payment for the wireless
world. YG chose Sun's Java Enterprise System as the underlying
technology for its micro-payment platform.
"Thanks to Sun's Java Enterprise System, a new and dynamic company like Young Generation (YG) can develop very quickly and easily new products, such as a payment system, able to manage millions of microtransactions. The benefit of using an open software system matches with the ambition of YG to enter global markets with a significant time-to-market advantage," said Francesco Fiandra, CEO, Young Generation.
About Java Enterprise System
Serious software made simple, the Java Enterprise System seamlessly integrates award-winning and market-leading enterprise network services that are needed by every organization to successfully build and deploy their own business critical applications. This complete standards-based software system is delivered as a single, pre-integrated entity on a predictable release cycle, at an affordable cost. Radically simplified customer pricing -- $100 per employee per year (U.S. list price. All prices quoted are in U.S. dollars) -- delivers the peace of mind CIOs need to focus on what they do best: leverage IT to achieve their business goals. The Java Enterprise System shared network services provides the following functionality and capabilities: Web and Application Services, Network Identity Services, Portal Services, Communication and Collaboration Services, Availability Services and end-to-end Security Services. For more information on the Java Enterprise System please visit: http://www.sun.com/software/javaenterprisesystem
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 industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com/ .
NOTE: Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun Logo, Java, Java Enterprise System and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Tim Brook
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
+44 (0)1252 421426
tim.brook@sun.com
Brett Smith
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
408-276-5721
Brett.Smith@Sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
CONTACT: Tim Brook, +44 (0)1252 421426, or tim.brook@sun.com, or BrettSmith, +1-408-276-5721, or Brett.Smith@Sun.com, both of Sun Microsystems,Inc.
Web site: http://sun.com/
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