Some of the enhancements made to the Sun Java System
Portal Server 7 include:
Broadening of Office's functionality to include software like SharePoint
Portal Server could, ironically, help strengthen rival ISVs battling against Microsoft's suite with their own offerings.
The Sun ONE
Portal Server is part of the Sun(TM) Open Net Environment (Sun(TM) ONE) offering -- an open, integratable product portfolio to enable the development and delivery of Java(tm) Web services.
The Sun ONE
Portal Server enables delivery of content, services, business processes and applications in personalized portals for enterprise organizations.
"Solid Edge Insight Technology provides a natural extension to SharePoint
Portal Server, benefiting our mutual customers in the technically demanding mechanical engineering discipline," said Gytis Barzdukas, group product manager of the Portal Business Group at Microsoft.
"Teaming with leading ISVs such as Open Market helps provide the best-in- class content management and delivery capability to our
Portal Server customers," said Wes Wasson, iPlanet vice president of product marketing.
Running sessions via web browser is now an add-on option thanks to the
Portal Server package.
According to the company, Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 HA for Windows combines two solutions - Storage Foundation for Windows and Veritas Cluster Server, together with enhanced usability tools to simplify storage management, high availability and disaster recovery for Windows applications such as Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, and SharePoint
Portal Server.
Axa's portal is powered by Sun One
Portal Server, Java System Directory Server, Java Systems Web Server, as well as J2EE and XML technologies residing on Sun servers running the Solaris operating system.
The contract covers project management, strategy support, business analysis, design and implementation support of an intranet solution based on IBM WebSphere
Portal Server.