Sun Microsystems Strikes Multi-Million Dollar Deal With Leading ERP
Software Company to Deploy MySQL(TM) Enterprise and GlassFish(TM)
Solutions
New Customer Stésud Deploys Open Source
Application Server and Database Platform to Reduce Enterprise IT Costs
and Improve Overall Performance
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) September 9, 2008 --
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced the addition of the
leading enterprise resource planning (ERP) software vendor Stésud
to a growing list of customers that have adopted and deployed Sun's open
source MySQL(TM) database and GlassFish(TM) application server software.
This Belgium-based enterprise company joins Australian online travel
pioneer Wotif.com and hundreds of other companies that now rely on MySQL
and GlassFish as a lower-cost, higher-performance alternative to
traditional database and application server software.
“Sun bet on open source as an enterprise
business model years ago and the adoption curve we're seeing in 2008
validates this business and financial model. Companies from around the
globe and from all business sectors are shifting to open source
solutions that include Sun's open source Java(TM) software and
OpenSolaris as the operating system,” said
Rich Green, executive vice-president, Software, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Stésud: Open Source Makes Sense
When it identified that its existing software infrastructure needed
refreshing, Belgium-based Stésud looked to
Java as the technology upon which to build the company's new platform.
An ERP provider with eGovernment clients that include the Belgian
government, Stésud evaluated several
solutions and selected Sun's GlassFish application server. As part of
this multi-million dollar deal, Stésud
also employed Sun's MySQL Enterprise(TM) subscription, allowing the
company to dependably migrate to a more scalable and reliable Web
database architecture for the future. Selected for its competitive
pricing and performance levels, this deployment will allow Stésud
to run its existing applications, in addition to new ones that it
previously would have been unable to support.
“Our customers expect and demand the highest
levels of software availability and performance imaginable, considering
that Stesud's ERP solution is central to the functioning of major
businesses and even governments,” said Benoit
Lemaire, CEO of Stésud. “Java-based
GlassFish was the first piece of the puzzle we identified to meet our
stringent new infrastructure requirements. As soon as Sun acquired
MySQL, we decided to employ it as our new database rather than Oracle.
With Sun behind both GlassFish and MySQL, it was the best open source
infrastructure combination for our needs and for our customers'
operations.”
Wotif.com, a leading Web site for business and leisure travelers to find
last-minute discount bookings, selected Sun's MySQL database and
GlassFish Enterprise Server to accommodate the site's growing user base.
With more than three million users visiting the site on a monthly basis
and 200,000 making travel reservations each month, Wotif.com needed a
highly scalable and reliable platform to power its site. After
evaluating several open source providers, Wotif.com selected Sun
technology after a slew of tests the company ran, demonstrating the
solutions' stability and performance capabilities.
GlassFish, an enterprise-quality Java(TM) EE 5 application server that
offers advanced clustering, centralized administration, and
best-in-class performance is one of the leading open source application
servers in the industry today. MySQL is one of the world's most popular
open source database software. 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 these products, visit: http://www.glassfish.org
and http://www.mysql.com.
As a proud sponsor of global Software Freedom Day on September 20 (http://softwarefreedomday.org/about),
Sun is calling for community members and Sun employees across the world
to participate in a global education program designed to improve
awareness around the importance and benefits of open source
technologies. These technologies include OpenSolaris(TM),
OpenOffice.org(TM), Open JDK, NetBeans(TM), MySQL, GlassFish, PostgreSQL
and OpenSPARC(TM). For more on Sun’s open
source offerings and Software Freedom celebration, please visit: www.sun.com/softwarefreedom.
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, MySQL, Java, GlassFish,
OpenSolaris, OpenOffice.org, NetBeans, OpenSPARC and The Network Is The
Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems,
Inc. and its subsidiaries, in the United States and other countries. All
SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered
trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in the United States and other
countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an
architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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