Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq:JAVA), today announced the immediate availability of a new offering to help customers achieve greater return on investment (ROI) and significantly reduce the costs of deploying and managing database and application server software. Sun GlassFish(TM) and MySQL(TM) Unlimited enables companies of all sizes to deploy the software on unlimited servers across their entire organization for a flat annual subscription. For more details see: http://www.sun.com/mysql/glassfish.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (Business Wire EON) June 27, 2008 --
Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq:JAVA), today announced the immediate
availability of a new offering to help customers achieve greater return
on investment (ROI) and significantly reduce the costs of deploying and
managing database and application server software. Sun GlassFish(TM) and
MySQL(TM) Unlimited enables companies of all sizes to deploy the
software on unlimited servers across their entire organization for a
flat annual subscription. For more details see: http://www.sun.com/mysql/glassfish.
Enterprise software customers are increasingly choosing open source
software because they are demanding freedom from proprietary compliance
issues, proprietary lock-in, and proprietary license fees. Users want to
deploy the latest innovations on multi-CPU, multi-core hardware and the
latest virtualization technologies, without incurring pricing penalties
from proprietary software vendors.
“With GlassFish and MySQL Unlimited, customers
eliminate these proprietary pricing constraints, and gain the
flexibility to deploy the latest innovations, for a flat annual
subscription – without having to count
servers, CPUs, cores or virtual machines. Sun has a trusted relationship
with our customers to provide 24x7 enterprise data center support and
the software to efficiently manage large scale deployments. We are
confident that customers will choose this open offering for the
flexibility of the solution and the rock-solid business case for cost
savings,” said Rich Green, executive vice
president of Software at Sun.
GlassFish is one of the leading open source application servers in the
industry today with more than seven million downloads since its release
in May 2005. MySQL is the most popular open source database software in
the world. Many of the world's largest and fastest-growing organizations
use MySQL to save time and money powering their high-volume Web sites,
critical business systems, and packaged software. For more details on
GlassFish visit: http://www.glassfish.org
and for MySQL,visit: http://dev.mysql.com.
GlassFish and MySQL Unlimited pricing starts at $65,000 USD a year for
an unlimited number of servers across a customer's entire organization
(for companies with fewer than 1,000 employees). Pricing is tiered by
employee size for larger companies.
For a typical customer with under 1,000 employees running application
servers on 20 dual-CPU, dual-core x86 servers and running database
servers on 10 dual-CPU, dual-core x86 servers, the three year total cost
of ownership (TCO) for proprietary software will exceed $3 million USD.
The three year TCO for GlassFish and MySQL Unlimited for this same
configuration is just $240,000 USD – a savings
of over $2.76 million USD. For details on the comparison see http://www.sun.com/mysql/glassfish.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global
marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the
Computer" (TM) -- Sun drives network participation through shared
innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be
found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.
Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Java, GlassFish, MySQL and The
Network Is the Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun
Microsystems, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other
countries.
All prices quoted are in U.S. dollars.
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