Executive Update

Sun's New Business Model

Posted September 30, 2006 | Leadership | Leadership | Leadership |

Sun Microsystems has released its operating system (Solaris 10) and Java Enterprise System (JES) under a new subscription scheme in which the customer gets the entire enterprise software stack for free, and support is charged on a per-employee-per-year basis instead of the typical per-processor-per-user model. The JES contains Sun's portal server, application server, identity server, Web server, clustering software, and some other similar products.

About The Author
Manish Srivastava
Manish Kumar Srivastava is a Technical Architect with SETLabs at Infosys Technologies Limited. His experience includes application development and migration on Unix and Linux. Mr. Srivastava's current interests are legacy modernization strategies and implementation in the enterprise. He can be reached at manish_srivastava at infosys.com.
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