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From the News Desk
Tuesday, 11. March 2008
Sun, Microsoft Further Alliance with New Interoperability Center
Sun Microsystems and Microsoft have announced two new milestones in their ongoing alliance: the official opening of the Sun/Microsoft Interoperability Center on Microsoft's Redmond campus for optimising Microsoft applications on Sun Fire x64 server systems storage, and the availability of the Sun Infrastructure Solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.
"The new Sun/Microsoft Interoperability Center will help provide our joint customers with a testbed for running key Microsoft applications on Sun's x64 servers and help ensure more seamless integration between the technologies," said Lisa Sieker, vice president of Systems Marketing, Sun Microsystems. "
Objectives of the Sun/Microsoft Interoperability Center will include optimisation of Microsoft applications on Sun x64 systems and storage, and promotion of full interoperability in application areas such as virtualisation, Java technology, systems management and identity. It will be designed to include the following:
Sun Infrastructure Solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is one of the first results of the collaboration between the two companies. This solution aims to help enable enterprise customers to better manage e-mail growth and realise the benefits of Exchange Server 2007.
"The new Sun/Microsoft Interoperability Center will help provide our joint customers with a testbed for running key Microsoft applications on Sun's x64 servers and help ensure more seamless integration between the technologies," said Lisa Sieker, vice president of Systems Marketing, Sun Microsystems. "
Objectives of the Sun/Microsoft Interoperability Center will include optimisation of Microsoft applications on Sun x64 systems and storage, and promotion of full interoperability in application areas such as virtualisation, Java technology, systems management and identity. It will be designed to include the following:
- Demonstration and testing area for Windows on Sun x64 systems and storage
- Lab space for customer proofs-of-concept focused on Windows Server 2008 on Sun x64 systems and storage
- Ability to certify Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE) and Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE), including Sun's Java Runtime
- Environment (JRE(TM)) software for and with Microsoft operating environments and applications
- Joint work to help enable cross-platform server virtualisation, including Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Sun xVM
- Cross-company collaboration to allow Sun Ray thin client software to provide a first-rate virtual desktop for the Windows environment and support Windows technologies
Sun Infrastructure Solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is one of the first results of the collaboration between the two companies. This solution aims to help enable enterprise customers to better manage e-mail growth and realise the benefits of Exchange Server 2007.
