News Highlight: GlassFish As A LAMP Alternative For Enterprises

Sun Microsystems today announced GlassFish Portfolio as an enterprise level web application platform. Sun calls it most complete, cost-efficient open web application platform. It is a stack comprising of its highly scalable, high availability, GlassFish server, Apache Tomcat, Ruby, PHP and Liferay Portal. Similar to many other commercial open source stack, it is a pre-integrated, fully tested stack ready for deployment in production systems.The GlassFish Portfolio includes the GlassFish Application Server, along with the following new components:

• Sun GlassFish Web Stack – A complete and fully integrated LAMP stack designed for developers wanting a light-weight Web solution. The GlassFish Web Stack includes Tomcat, Memcached, Squid and Lighttpd with support for PHP, Ruby and the Java Platform.
• Sun GlassFish Web Space Server – Based on Liferay Portal, the leading open source portal technology, helps companies simplify Web site development and build collaborative work spaces, including portals and social networking sites.
• Sun GlassFish ESB – A lightweight, open source ESB platform for department-scale and enterprise SOA deployments that connects existing and new applications to deliver content and services to the Web.
• Sun Enterprise Manager – For enterprise scale management and monitoring of the GlassFish Portfolio including SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) support.

With the release of this stack, Sun could complement its Mysql Enterprise Database, offering enterprises a complete portfolio of applications needed for their web deployment. It is available in a range of subscription based pricing starting with $999 per server per year to $8999 per server per year. More information on their subscriptions plans is available here.

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