Sun JavaOne
Sun Readies JavaFX, Evolves Open Source Portfolio and Business Models
| May 9, 2008 | Application Infrastructure
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Analyst: Brad Shimmin
Current Perspective: Positive
Vendor Importance: Very High
Market Impact: Very High
Event Summary
May 7, 2008 – As a sign of Sun's commitment to ending the lock-in associated with proprietary operating systems Sun introduced OpenSolaris and announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services that deliver Sun's open source software (OpenSolaris and MySQL on Amazon's Cloud. Sun also strengthened its NetBeans community extend reach to scripting community with Launch of NetBeans IDE Early Access for PHP and the release of NetBeans 6.1. Sun announced a technology preview of the open source Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server and the new Sun GlassFish Communications Server. And finally, Sun and Liferay launched an initiative to develop next-generation Web technologies.
Analytical Summary
• Current Perspective: Positive on the numerous announcements made by Sun Microsystems at its 13th JavaOne developer’s conference in San Francisco. The company’s aggressive pursuit of unique business models and opportunities within the open source realm coupled with its no holds bared push to capture multi-channel, customer facing applications development and deployment (via JavaFX, Hydrazine and Project Insight) showcase the company’s ability to leverage the powerful ubiquity and brand value of the Java platform and associated development community.
• Vendor Importance: Very high to Sun, as the company needed to reinvigorate its slow-to-emerge vision for rich Internet application (RIA) development and establish a cohesive open source business plan and product portfolio. Similarly, the company needed to demonstrate a compelling vision for cloud computing services and solutions in order to keep pace with rival application infrastructure vendors, which have aggressively adopted hosted solutions and hosting enablement programs.
• Market Impact: Very high to the Middleware Software and Services market, particularly for vendors with open source solutions (Red Hat, IONA, MuleSource, WSO2 and SpringSource). While Sun can be positioned as struggling to identify and capitalize upon lucrative open source business models, the company has demonstrated its ability to capture the attention of the Java development community, and it has showcased its commitment to open source software through acquisition, partnership and innovation. Conversely, in competing with predominantly line-of-business-based vendors in this space, Sun has not made any threatening moves with these announcements, as the vendor continues to shift its attention away from enterprise IT toward consumer-driven solutions.
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