Wednesday, 9 May 2007

Sun Partners with Ericsson on Java Platform

Sun is joining hands with Ericsson to work on Java-based server applications that can run on wireless networks. The duo will contribute to the GlassFish open-source community—a group that develops server applications based on the Java Enterprise Edition platform, Rich Green, Sun's senior vice president for software said.

Ericsson will contribute parts of its server development to GlassFish.

"We realise that in developing new services around IMS that will change the way people live their lives, we can't do that on our own," said Martin Harriman, vice president of marketing and business development for the multimedia business at Ericsson. "This is a big step for us [and] we've never worked like this before."

"For them to say the leading edge technology that is going to power their next big round of business is going to be in open source is this huge quantum leap for a company like that," Green said.