Sun and Manugistics Group Inc., a provider of supply and demand chain management solutions, are expanding their strategic relationship by making Manugistics a certified reseller of the Sun JavaTM System Application Server. Manugistics will also resell the Sun JavaTM System Identity Server and Sun JavaTM System Directory Server.

"Sun shares our commitment to help clients achieve desired business growth, get the maximum value of existing IT investments, and ensure the security and integrity of their global demand and supply chains by delivering highly reliable and scalable enterprise class systems," said Lori Mitchell-Keller, senior vice president of Market Strategy at Manugistics. "This agreement is part of a radical new approach that ultimately helps customers synchronize their IT investment with their business needs."

The new partnership will give customers in a range of industries the ability to accelerate the deployment of flexible solutions. These solutions are designed to be easily integrated into existing operations and have the ability to scale based on the evolution of business requirements and priorities. They should allow clients to benefit from better access to supply and demand chain applications and data from across the enterprise.

"Together, Sun and Manugistics can help customers eradicate complexity and make enterprise infrastructure software more predictable in its delivery, more accessible for evaluation and even more affordable for our customers to purchase," said Stuart Wells, senior vice president, market development, Sun Microsystems. "With first hand experience using Manugistics' solutions combined with the Java System software, Sun looks forward to passing on those benefits to customers."

The key Java Sun System software available from Sun and Manugistics includes:

• Sun Java System Application Server 7: Provides a JavaTM 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EETM) compatible platform for developing and delivering Java technology-based applications.

• Sun Java System Directory Server: Provides a central repository for storing and managing identity profiles, access privileges, application and network resource information.

• Sun Java System Identity Server: Provides fine-grained access control to the Web and Web-based resources for secure delivery of business information.

For more information, visit:

http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2003-10/sunflash.20031006.1.html [...read more...]

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