To learn more about Sun's strategy and vision for Network.com, I suggest you listen to this innovating@sun podcast.

Hear Hal Stern, Vice President of Sun Systems Engineering, and Jim Parkinson, Sun Vice President of Engineering for Collaboration and ISVs, discuss how ISVs, open source communities and developers, and end users can benefit from Network.com.

Also, check out the Sun Net Talk Program on Network.com here, our press release, and a short feature story published on the front page of sun.com this morning.  (I am quoted in there somewhere).  All these provide a lot if insight into what we're doing with Network.com.  

Laura McLellan, a leading Gartner analyst provides a great perspective on Network.com in today's Internet World:  "Sun is giving ISVs tech support to get their apps grid-enabled and free time to develop and test them," McLellan told internetnews.com. "HP and IBM charge from day one. And, Sun is letting the software provider keep customer control. I like the strategy because it lets them build communities of ISVs and software providers who can look at Sun and say 'This is not someone who is going to compete with us, but help us.' It's fully transparent."

Finally, here is a presentation, providing instructions on how to publish an application to the Network.com application catalog, using Blender, an open source rendering software for 3D content, as an example.