According to the authors of "SunTM Open Net Environment in e-Government," a Sun white paper, government must respond to the increasing demand for improved online services for diverse audiences while providing security, privacy, service provisioning and systems management. Achieving these ends is made easier by employment of the Sun ONE architecture and platform, the authors assert, turning their focus to services in the government-to-citizen (G2C) sector.

To meet these G2C service goals, the authors say, governments should deploy platforms that:

• Aggregate and integrate information from numerous agency sources

• Host services on secure, scalable and robust platforms capable of serving enterprise-grade demands

• Employ open standards that enable administrators to select best-of-breed solutions regardless of vendor and to avoid single-vendor lock-in

A key element in the Sun ONE platform's ability to provide these capabilities is the SunTM ONE Developer Platform product line, a framework that enables users to deploy portal computing, identity management and business and application integration solutions.

The white paper includes examples of G2C portals developed and deployed with the Sun ONE platform that include the states of California, Michigan, New Mexico, Minnesota and Massachusetts, as well as the governments of Singapore and Dubai. [...read more...]

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