Hello Bruce,
Not that I would ever argue with someone with an email address of
@sun.com, but I always had considered Sun's championing of the
Liberty Alliance as the closest direct competion to m$ .net.
Can you explain in more depth tomorrow??
Thanks,
Jerry
On Thursday, June 6, 2002, at 03:37 PM, Bruce Timberlake wrote:
Sun ONE is an architecture design concept, where you have pieces and layers
that make up your total content delivery solution. Sun sells pieces to fit
each part of SunONE, but you can also buy parts from other "open" vendors
(hint: the Redmond vendor isn't one of them). Big pieces of SunONE are the
former iPlanet suite pieces (directory server, web server, app server,
etc). Check the link from sun.com for more indepth info... (I don't feel
like going on a sales/marketing rant tonight)
Was SunONE created to compete directly with Microsoft's Active Directory ?
The concept of SunONE has been around for a while, since before Win2K etc.,
so it wasn't created in reaction to anything specific from Microsoft, or
any other vendor.
If you have to compare SunONE to anything from Microsoft, it's more of an
alternative to .Net than anything else. AD is just one small component of
Microsoft's services. .Net is like SunONE from an architecture standpoint,
but each block in their diagram is a specific Microsoft product, whereas in
the SunONE diagram, it's a concept or a service that could come from any
compliant vendor (use Novell LDAP instead of SunONE Directory Server, for
example). While Sun does sell stuff that fits each niche, and we'd love
you to buy it all from us, the concept is that by thinking about SunONE
when designing your implementation, you don't lock yourself into any single
vendor, including Sun, for any single piece of your solution. And _that's_
what being "open" is really all about.
I highly recommend reading the Sun website about SunONE if you are really
interested: http://wwws.sun.com/software/sunone/
--
Bruce Timberlake
Sun Cobalt Technology Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
E: bruce.timberlake@xxxxxxx
T: 877-718-3569 / x69369
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