Sun
Microsystems has released a new platform designed to make the most of its
GlassFish application server.
The firm said that its
Sun
GlassFish Portfolio is open source and cost-effective, and could help
companies looking to run low-cost, scalable applications.
The platform includes a
LAMP-based
web stack with support for PHP, Ruby and the Java platform; a Web Space
Server, which can be used to build collaborative work spaces, such as portals
and social networking sites; and a number of management and monitoring tools.
"Companies are under huge pressure to do more with less, and are turning to
scalable, supported open source technologies," said Mark Herring, vice president
of Sun's Software Infrastructure division.
"With GlassFish Portfolio, Sun is providing customers with the
highest-scaling, highest performance and lowest cost open source platform.
"Companies developing web applications with the Sun GlassFish Portfolio can
expect to deploy quickly, and see a sevenfold improvement in application
price/performance at only 10 per cent of the cost over proprietary offerings."
The firm also announced a
GlassFish
communications server, which it described as a telecoms-grade, open source
foundation for multimedia applications. The server, which was jointly developed
with
Ericsson,
will let service providers create and offer VoIP, instant messaging and other
interactive and multimedia applications, Sun said.
The Sun GlassFish Portfolio is available immediately on a flexible
subscription-based pricing model starting at $999 (£695) per server.
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