PT IBM is moving in on Sun Microsystems Inc.'s turf. America Online Inc. and IBM announced Wednesday that the complete Sun-Netscape Alliance's iPlanet Internet portfolio will be available on IBM's AIX operating system in the first half of this year. In addition, both iPlanet infrastructure and electronic-commerce applications will be ported to IBM's Monterey Unix platform supporting the PowerPC RISC architecture. This announcement is consistent with our strategy, and our strategy is simple.
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Netscape Communications Corp. Before today's announcement, the complete iPlanet portfolio was available only on Sun Solaris. N.Y. Dougherty said it is definite that iPlanet will be supported on Monterey Unix for RISC processors. But development work is needed for Intel-based Monterey. But that is the part we still need to work on with the Alliance. In the first half of the year, the Alliance will begin releasing AIX versions of the iPlanet Application Server, Calendar Server and Certificate Management System products as well as e-commerce applications such as TradingXpert, MerchantXpert and PublishingXpert.