Sun Microsystems Inc. is hard at work on providing an end-to-end radio frequency identification (RFID) solution for major retailers like Wal-Mart and its suppliers.
Juan Carlos Soto, the director of advanced development in the office of Sun's chief technology officer, told reporters attending Sun's Software Day here on Tuesday that innovation was Sun's DNA and that one of the many advanced technology projects his team was working on was the RFID Network, which stretched from tags to readers to RFID middleware, to integration, applications and the B2B scenario. At the event, Sun software executives also offered a glimpses into several other Sun initiatives, from Solaris 10 to new 3-D interfaces, as well as the company's Linux strategy.
News source: eWeek
