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Sun Microsystems has spruced up a key piece of e-business software in hopes of capturing more software sales and closing the gap between itself and market leaders BEA Systems and IBM.
Sun's iPlanet division next month will release an update to its application-server software, technology that runs e-business and other Web site transactions. Sun's new version includes tools that should make it simpler to build and run Web-based software and services using the Java programming language.
In the $2.25 billion application-server software market last year, Sun ranked third with 7 percent of the market, behind leaders BEA with 36 percent and IBM with 34 percent. Oracle was fourth with 5 percent, followed by Hewlett-Packard and Sybase with 4 percent.
In hopes of improving the company's market share, Sun executives say they plan to renew its software efforts with numerous product updates and strategy announcements in the next three months.
Sun, whose overall revenue stems mainly from selling expensive, high-powered server computers, recently took full ownership of the iPlanet software group after its partnership with America Online dissolved.
iPlanet, originally called the Sun-Netscape Alliance, was created in 1998 after America Online bought Netscape Communications. It featured e-business software products, programmers and salespeople from both Sun and Netscape.
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