New Network.com partner program helps ISVs bring applications to market faster

Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced the addition of 14 new applications in the network.com application catalog, a collection of online grid-enabled applications that are available from Network.com's Sun Grid computes utility service on a pay-per-use basis with "Click and Run" ease. Sun also announced a new partner program, "Sun Network.com Connection," for independent software vendors to create and expand lucrative on-demand service offerings to end-users at a lower risk and cost with access to new channels. Additionally, Sun has expanded Network.com's international availability with the Netherlands being the latest of the 25 countries worldwide from where its services can be utilized.

"An expanded catalog of over 40 applications from ISVs and open source communities covering a wide range of industry segments is not only increasing the diversity of the Network.com's portfolio of pay-per-use services but also attracting more developers and end-users to use, build and share new services," said Mark Herring, Senior Director of Software Marketing. "Network.com is providing developers and ISVs with flexible IT infrastructure resources and a robust portal for creating, publishing and accessing open source-based as well as ISV applications. With a growing collection of applications, a host of new developer tools and worldwide availability, Network.com is evolving into a virtual on-demand data center that allows businesses of any size to leverage compute infrastructure without the cost of ownership and with the flexibility of scaling up or down compute resources in real time as business demands change."

Network.com offers ISVs the application catalog to quickly and securely offer their applications to end-users and a Digital Entitlement Token system that gives ISVs the option of a new and flexible software licensing mechanism. Sun has launched a new "Sun Network.com Connection" partner program that allows ISVs to gain competitive advantage by publishing their on-demand applications to Network.com customers and jointly going to market with Sun, thereby shortening their sales cycles and enabling end-users with limited IT resources to gain immediate access to these applications.