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Portfolio Adds New Technologies to Price List

The Sun Partner Advantage Program for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) has some new development hardware offerings that include Sun Ultra 27 Assemble to Order (ATO); Sun Fire X2270, X4170 X4270, and X4275 Servers ATO; standard configurations for the Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000, T5120, T5140, T5220, and T5240 Servers; among others. As part of this program, qualified Sun partners are able to purchase products, such as these, at discounted rates.

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The Solaris On Demand program has been launched, offering the independent software vendor (ISV) community the technology, hosted infrastructure and services needed to offer their software as a service (SaaS).

This SaaS program targets ISVs with a traditional, on-premise license model who want to offer their existing application on-demand without having to use a multitenancy application architecture.

Sun and its hosting partners offer a 90-day proof-of-concept environment where ISVs have access to hosting, hardware, managed services and backup, with a 99.5 percent guaranteed uptime service level agreement. ISVs can choose to have Sun or one of its hosting partners manage their applications. To ensure a seamless transition, Sun also provides technical, budgetary and marketing support.

Hosting services are being offered by several Sun partners, including NaviSite for U.S.-based and European Union companies, AT&T’s USi Communications for U.S.-based companies and NTT Europe Online for European Union companies.

Learn more about the Solaris On Demand program by visiting http://www.sun.com/ondemand.