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JAVAONE: Sun's SeeBeyond buy is seen as a sensible deal

Sun acquires SOA infrastructure vendor

By Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service, 06/28/05

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Demetriades also said he's looking forward to the reach an established vendor such as Sun can give SeeBeyond, a privately held company. "Sun can do something with this that we, as a 00 million company, can’t do ourselves," he said.

Speaking in a press conference after the keynote, Sun President and Chief Operating Officer Jonathan Schwartz said that once the deal closes, Sun would rely on SeeBeyond's sales force to drive its SOA software strategy. He also said that the deal does not impinge on Sun's plans unveiled Monday to release an open source implementation of JBI.

"JBI will be the standard, and obviously we're talking about open sourcing an element of the implementation with ESB," Schwartz said. "Secondarily, SeeBeyond will become the full-fledged integration of the tools suite. It's a very simple model. SeeBeyond is the implementation of JBI for Sun going forward."

In addition to stumping for the community and highlighting the SeeBeyond deal, McNealy also promoted industry-specific solutions for Java in his keynote. In particular, he focused on two industries he sees as being in need of a more networked IT architecture: health care and education.

McNealy touted a system the Brazilian National Healthcare organization built with the help of Sun technology, which gives Brazil's citizens Java smart cards they can use to access their health-care information on any network within the system.

This system, which eliminates the need to fill out new forms every time a patient visits a new doctor, particularly impressed one JavaOne attendee. "I can relate to that," said Steve Glisson, design engineer with Global Exchange Services, which provides services based on EDI (electronic data interchange) and uses Java to manipulate data. "Every time we take our children to the doctor, we're asked the same questions over and over and over."

Incidentally, SeeBeyond began as a company that provided EAI (enterprise application integration) technology specifically for the health-care industry, and Demetriades said that "all the top health-care facilities in the world" have standardized on SeeBeyond's software.

SeeBeyond has 2,000 customers worldwide, including Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, and Pfizer.

Paul Krill of InfoWorld contributed to this report.

About the author

Elizabeth Montalbano is a San Francisco-based correspondent for the IDG News Service.

The IDG News Service is a Network World affiliate.

 

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