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By Alex Handy
February 10, 2009 — 
Over the past four years, Sun Microsystems has recast itself as a company focused on open source. With open-source Java, Solaris, NetBeans and application server GlassFish, the company has come up with a product lineup to support that claim. Today, Sun expanded its open-source offerings even further by releasing four GlassFish-focused products based on popular open-source software.

The additions that make up GlassFish Portfolio are priced based on levels of service and support. The first product, the GlassFish Web Stack is a snapshot of Apache Web server, MySQL and PHP that Sun will update and support for US$999 per server per year. That stack, which also includes Java EE, is supported on either Linux or Solaris, and according to Karen Tegan Padir, vice president of Sun's MySQL and Software Infrastructure Group, the stack is designed to allow developers to write once for either operating system.

“Things will evolve in the community, and there will be new packages, new features and new things we will add to it," said Tegan Padir. "It's not this frozen stack you're going to get once a year."

Pricing on the Web Stack also extends to higher levels of support, which are available for $2,999, $5,999 and $8,999 per server per year.

“The beauty of GlassFish Portfolio is that both [GlassFish and Java EE] are included with a single subscription,” said Kevin Schmidt, director of strategy for software infrastructure marketing at Sun.

“You can begin working with Java EE. Where it makes sense to use BPEL for orchestration, you can do that in a very incremental way.”

Those prices are also extended to the three other new GlassFish components from Sun.

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The second component is GlassFish ESB. “GlassFish ESB is taking components that have been developed in the OpenESB community, along with GlassFish and the associated tooling in NetBeans,” said Schmidt. “It has transformation and routing capabilities.”

Schmidt said that the key difference here is the inclusion of “core adapters for HTTP and Web services. The ESB itself has at its core a [Java Business Integration] implementation that uses a normalized message router so it's doing everything in memory.” Schmidt said that this improves speed and responsiveness.

The third new component is GlassFish Web Space Server. This portal-like offering includes Web-based collaboration tools, such as LifeRay Portal. Schmidt said that it is targeted at developers who have moved beyond the idea of a simple portal and are looking for ways to give their users wiki-like capabilities for workplace collaboration.

Finally, Sun is offering a set of enterprise-targeted GlassFish management tools. This is a value-added product that only Sun provides. Sun hopes the premium GlassFish Enterprise Manager will entice developers to subscribe to the higher levels of support included with the software.

All of the GlassFish Portfolio products include either GlassFish 2.1 or GlassFish 3 Prelude. That's a fancy way of saying that GlassFish 3 is still in beta, but Tegan Padir said that the final version of GlassFish 3 should be available in the spring.

No matter what products Sun wraps around GlassFish, Andrew Binstock, principal analyst with Pacific Data Works and columnist for SD Times, isn't convinced that the newcomer application server will influence many existing WebLogic and WebSphere customers. He said that those two application servers have a huge lead in user uptake, and they also offer scalability and stability that isn't available in other products.

“Whether GlassFish has a chance of making inroads in that market, that's hard to say,” said Binstock. “The real competitor for GlassFish is not Oracle or IBM. It's probably JBoss.”


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