Sun's third annual "Tunathon" program was recently completed. ISVs submitted applications to have them analyzed and tested to optimize and tune performance without creating customized code. Over 45 ISVs participated, including RSA Security, SAS, i2 Technologies, BeVocal, Gene-IT, Geospiza, Intersystems, Interwoven, Marketmax, MSC.Software, TNO, Ubiquity and VIPTone. The average performance gain was 31 percent.

The Tunathon is a collaborative engineering effort between Sun and its ISV partners to improve and optimize application performance on the Sun platform. The program takes four months.

"No other systems vendor offers a joint engineering program of this kind and of this caliber," said Stans Kleijnen, vice president of market development engineering, Sun. "Through the process of collaboration, we're able to deliver to our customers better application performance and higher system utilization, which ultimately results in greater customer satisfaction. Plus, we're able to benefit from the real-world expertise our ISV partners bring to the table, enabling us to enhance our own products' performance to meet ever-changing application requirements."

The results of the Tunathon achieved a 70 percent improvement for Ubiquity, a provider of carrier-grade software platforms for fixed and mobile networks. CTO Michael Doyle said, "We have developed an industry-renowned reputation for the development of new software technology and scalable, distributed architectures within the JavaTM technology environment. By participating in Sun's Tunathon program and working closely with JavaTM 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SETM) product engineers, we were able to significantly improve the performance of our application on Sun platforms. This intimate collaboration has enabled us to deliver better, more powerful next-generation service and application platforms to our customers, and at the same time, it has given us a truly unique opportunity to relay our input to Sun engineers on the design and development of the J2SE platform going forward, helping to make that platform an even better one for our needs and the needs of our customers."

SAS, a provider of business intelligence software and services, realized significant results in last year's Tunathon program and was eager to build upon those efforts and work closely with the Sun engineering team again this year.

"While the tangible benefit is clear -- out of 10 test applications, we achieved an average improvement of 59 percent -- the intangible benefit is the creation and continued fostering of a mutually deep engineering relationship," said Clarke Thacher, senior software manager, SAS. "Through Tunathon, SAS and Sun engineers worked side-by-side as virtual team members helping us deliver on our next generation flagship SAS 9.1 release." [...read more...]

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