Sun One?

[Thomas Paul]

Is anyone else getting confused by the proliferation of "Sun One" everything? I am beginning to think that "Sun One" is simply a label that Sun is sticking on any product that has any relationship to Java. Is "Sun One" the same thing as ".NET"? Just a marketing label?
This is what I have gotten from the literature:
Sun ONE is a highly ambitious roadmap of vision, architecture and platform.
Sun ONE is an open framework and infrastructure consisting of an architecture, technologies, platform servers and tools.
It's a dessert topping! No, it's a floor wax!

[David Ogren]

Yes, Sun ONE is both a conceptual architecture ,based on ebXML, J2EE, SOAP, etc., and a product brand for all of Sun's non-OS software. So it's even more expansive than you are suggesting: the Sun ONE brand covers non-Java products like email servers, integration servers, and mail servers.
So, I guess it is a little like MSFT's .NET branding. (Except it isn't vaporware.) And, I suppose, we are having similar successes and challenges with managing a brand that diverse. But at least it is less confusing than the equally diverse iPlanet brand.
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David Ogren
Desert Topping and Floor Wax Specialist for Sun ONE

[Thomas Paul]

Thanks, David!