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February 20, 2006Sun Launches Composite Application Platform
Sun recently announced their Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS) (http://www.ebizq.net/news/6716.html). This announcement represents the first Sun offering of the SeeBeyond technology.
There are 4 different suites: the Sun Java B2B Suite, the Sun Java ESB Suite, the Sun Java Application Platform Suite, and the Sun Java Web Infrastructure Suite. The Web Infrastructure Suite is comprised of market leading Web and identity infrastructure products.
In fact, Sun’s innovations in this platform have more to do with the way they are selling it than the technology itself. The platform is being offered as a subscription service. The pricing model is based on the number of employees in an enterprise and is priced at $50 per suite, per employee per year, or $100 for the entire platform. . The software can be hosted by a partner or the company can take the software under subscription and install it in the data center. Many companies use partners to run the data center. The strategy of creating suites suitable for particular business initiatives, and making the software easy to acquire, is a competitive advantage, compared with purchasing complex technology and having to spend a great deal of time and money installing and integrating it. The idea is making ownership easy – kind of like buying a condo, and not having to shovel your own snow, or integrate the integration software technologies.
The other remarkable part of this announcement is the fact that Sun was able to integrate the SeeBeyond software and come out with the offering so quickly. In the past, Sun’s software acquisitions have been – well – less than successful. In fact, many industry watchers were wondering whether SeeBeyond was ever going to see the light of day beyond the Sun acquisition. But this move makes a lot of sense. As SOA is gaining momentum, organizations are moving towards composite application development and creating new business solutions from a combination of new and existing components. The new functionality is created on the application server platform, and the existing components can be integrated using integration technology. Integration is an integral part of composite application deployment.
In fact, previous to the Sun acquisition, SeeBeyond was positioning itself as a composite application platform. Now that Sun, IBM, BEA, and Oracle offer platforms that combine application development with integration, will the independent integration vendors be able to compete effectively as platforms for composite application development? What types of technologies are you looking at for your composite application initiatives?
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I think your assesment of Sun and Software was right on. It is good to see that they are at least making an attempt to use Seebeyond, and I like the idea of combining technologies to form a composite application platform. Do you have something that defines all the pieces that make up a composite application platform?
Posted by: Kirk G Kaynor at February 24, 2006 04:18 PM
The technologies most commonly associated with composite applications include Web services, service orchestration capabilities, and service registries for governance.
Software vendors are introducing composite application platforms to offer a collection of these technologies and services in an integrated suite.
Integration vendors are extending their platforms to support composite applications because the back end integration enables non-web services to be included in the composite application, enabling an evolutionary approach to SOA.
Posted by: Beth Gold-Bernstein at February 28, 2006 10:12 PM
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