The scalability and binary compatibility of Sun systems running on the Solaris TM operating environment provides exceptional flexibility. The Solaris operating environment powers everything from laptops, PCs, workstations and servers to supercomputers. You also get support for the full range of security solutions, from authentication and encryption to firewalls and privacy solutions for secure business transactions. Service provider infrastructure products offered by the Sun-Netscape Alliance deliver an open, highly scalable framework for meeting the needs of Internet, enterprise, and application service providers. The Sun-Netscape Alliance solution provides the flexibility to integrate with existing customer systems, the scalability to expand with a growing customer and user base, and the modularity to easily add new products and services.
Service providers require compact, high-performance hardware that is easy to maintain.
Sun's commitment in this area is evident by the design of the Enterprise 250 server . Other workgroup servers with rack-optimized enclosures will be released in 1999. Bolster Dot-Com Initiatives Sun works closely with leading software vendors to optimize their products for the Sun platform. In a collaboration that dates back more than 15 years, Sun and Oracle Corporation have developed some of the industry's leading UNIX and Internet server, database, and networked business computing applications. Oracle8i is a complete platform for developing, deploying and managing Internet applications.