Sun and Palm Computing Announce Sun Services to Dot-Com Palm Devices for the Enterprise
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — October 20, 1999 — Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq:SUNW) and Palm Computing, Inc, a 3Com company (NASDAQ:COMS) today announced the availability of Sun's consulting services to help deliver enterprise applications and capabilities for handheld computers based on the Palm Computing (R) platform through the newly formed Sun .Com Consulting practice.
"Enterprise CIOs are seeking to extend their corporate data to handheld and wireless products," said Mark Bercow, Vice-President of strategic alliances and platform development for Palm Computing. "With their unique capabilities in delivering enterprise technologies, Sun .Com Consulting is in a leading position to empower mobile professionals by providing them with access to decision-making information anywhere, anytime, on Palm Computing platform products."
"Sun is delivering on our promise of computing for 'Anytime, Anywhere, On Any Device.' The wide acceptance of the Palm Computing platform will make it a primary choice platform for delivering the convenience and availability of enterprise computing to a mobile workforce," said Mark Bauhaus, vice president of Sun .Com Consulting, "with this ultra distributed enterprise environment the opportunities are endless."
Sun .Com Consulting is leveraging deep expertise and enterprise tools like Java(TM) and Jini(TM) technologies to help Palm Computing platform users realize the power of revolutionary applications in customer relationship management, supply chain management, portal, eBusiness, and other applications.
Sun .Com Consulting practice works with customers or their preferred system integrators to mobilize new and legacy enterprise applications, providing secure, wired and wireless access to internal systems from handheld devices. Sun .Com Consulting services are launching customers into the new era of mobile enterprise computing.
Sun is showing the latest developments in its Java 2 Platform Micro Edition (J2ME), a small footprint Java technology environment that enables secure, dynamic downloading for the PalmmOS(R) software at the PalmSource'99 Conference in Santa Clara. Sun and Palm showed an early version at Sun's JavaOne(SM) Conference in mid-June this year and sponsored an application contest to see unique programs developed during three days. "Making Java technology available for the Palm Computing platform will be a major bonus for our development community," said Mike Clary, vice president and general manager, Consumer and Embedded, Sun Microsystems, Inc, "and will be a big step forward in solidifying Java technology as the end-to-end enterprise application environment."
For more information on Sun .Com Consulting services go to www.sun.com/service/sunps/jdc/intovw.html
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, "The Network Is The ComputerTM," has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ "SUNW"), to its position as a leading provider of hardware, software, and services for establishing enterprise-wide intranets and expanding the power of the Internet. With more than $ 11.5 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 150 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://www.sun.com.
About Palm Computing
Palm Computing, Inc., a 3Com company, is the leading provider of personal companion products(1), including the best-selling Palm III, Palm V and Palm VII series of connected organizers. The Palm Computing platform is the premiere handheld development environment and is the foundation for the market-leading connected organizers from Palm Computing as well as products from Palm Computing's strategic partners such as IBM, QUALCOMM, Franklin Covey and Symbol Technologies. Designed to support the increasingly mobile and geographically dispersed nature of information management, the company's handheld solutions allow people to carry their most critical information in their pockets. For more information, visit: www.palm.com.
About 3Com Corporation
With over 300 million customers worldwide, 3Com Corporation connects more people to information in more ways than any other networking company. 3Com delivers innovative information access products, and residential connectivity and network system solutions to customers including enterprises, small businesses, carriers and network service providers. 3Com – More connected. For further information, visit 3Com's World Wide Web site at http://www.3com.com/ or the press site at http://www.3com.com/pressbox/.
(1) IDC, May 1999.
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CONTACT:
Sun Microsystems
Prentiss Donohue, 303/272-8065
prentiss.donohue@sun.com
or
A&R Partners for Palm Computing
Jason Caskey, 650/298-3913
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