Finally, we made the last step. After building a legacy in giving away millions of dollars in free, commercial grade software, we now offer free hardware to software developers who port their application to Solaris! Too good to be true? Try it!
Sun Developer Network (SDN) is a free program for the developer community. It might be a well kept secret, but the developer tools SDN members can access for free are state of the art (Netbeans, Sun Studio Tools), not only for Solaris, but for cross platform development. Combine this with a very robust application server (Glassfish) and RDBMS (mySQL), and developing web service based applications on a SAMP stack (Solaris, Apache, MySQL and PHP) becomes a breeze.
Now, if you need a server or workstation to run the entire stack on Solaris, you can get this for free too, as part of the Partner advantage program, which is of course also free. On top of that, we can help with benchmarks of your Solaris applications, so actual deployment capability can be tested and sized before the actual deployment. And when the first deployment comes around, you can leverage the free try-an-buy program for our CMT servers, both for developers and endusers. These servers are ideal for web services deployments in eHealth applications.
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Glad to see more options right from the source to the mass!
I am sure Sun's proven expertise in hardware will be as beneficial as Java and other software proved to industry as a whole.
Posted by Mayur Patel on April 24, 2008 at 08:20 AM PDT #