Speaking in Shanghai, Sun Microsystems chairman, president and CEO Scott McNealy announced the new region-wide alliance dedicated to JavaTM technology. This new alliance follows on the recently dedicated Java Center of Excellence (JCOE) program, also designed to foster interest in and use of Java programming language and architecture in the Chinese market.

Among the dozen partners from the region also in attendance were Hong Kong partners Global Network Solutions Asia Limited, Automated Systems (Hong Kong) Limited and Excel Technology International (Hong Kong) Limited, as well as Taiwan partners Cradle Technology, Stark Technology, Everlite Technology and China partners Modern Devices, BJ Teamsun, UFSoft, NEUSoft and Digital China.

This new effort on the part of Sun is grounded in the expectation that the software industry in China, which grew by 40 percent in 2002 for revenues of US$13.3 billion, will continue growing at a 30-35 percent rate in the future. This expectation is coupled with the fact that domestically developed software accounts for less than a third of the Chinese market and less than two percent on the global scale.

In order to promote the development of the Chinese software industry, which is seen as having the potential to rival region-leader India within a matter of years, Sun is delivering such products as NetBeansTM 3.5.1 and SunTM ONE Studio 5, Standard Edition in the simplified Chinese language. Sun is also making the NetBeans integrated development environment (IDE) available for free download in Chinese. (The URL is at the end of this article.)

The Sun ONE Studio product is a commercially available Java technology-based IDE for the SolarisTM Operating System (Solaris OS), Linux and Windows, designed for use by enterprise developers creating and deploying two-tier, Java technology-based Web applications and n-tier JavaTM 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EETM) applications.

"Java is a tremendous platform that can reduce overall application development costs for internal and external projects. Fundamentally, Java technology can improve the quality of the application development processes, shorten application development schedules and dramatically improve time-to-market," said Xie Yun, vice president of Digital China Ltd at the inauguration ceremony.

"As a founding member of the Greater China Alliance on Java technology, our goal is to spread that message so that companies and the region as a whole can reap the productivity and economic benefits that Java can make possible," Xie said.

Sun plans to open membership in the alliance to JCOE partners that have built certified Java expertise. Alliance members should appreciate immediate returns from such an endorsement in the form of a significant competitive edge when it comes to providing more advanced, higher revenue and higher margin services to Sun's extensive customer base in greater China as well as to other potential customers.

"Java's key strengths include helping organizations create reusable enterprise technology assets, simplifying operational support and enabling businesses to follow the same process and standards company-wide," said Walter Fang, chief technical officer of Neusoft Group Ltd. "These are compelling benefits that can transform the IT infrastructure of companies and countries."

Readers interested in downloading the NetBeans IDE in Chinese will find it at:

http://www.netbeans.org/chines

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