Sun and NIC collaborate on intranet security products And SunSoft and IBM will launch Internet bundle By Elinor Mills, IDG News Service

July  1996

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San Francisco -- Sun Microsystems Inc. announced in late June plans to integrate some of its software with a package from Network Imaging Corp., with the aim of allowing systems integrators to build World Wide Web-based intranets.

To be combined are the SunScreen network security software and NIC's IView:WebMOM (Multimedia Object Manager), a tool for linking corporate intranets.

Systems integrator Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Technologies announced it will use the combined products to offer its clients a secured storage management infrastructure for their virtual private networks.

The growing demand for "live Web" applications enabling dynamic content generation, distribution and management, together with the need to provide security across distributed intranet infrastructures, makes the agreement between Sun Microsystems and NIC particularly important," said David Yockelson, vice president and service director at the Meta Group, a Stamford, CT-based consultancy.

IView:WebMOM pricing begins at $30,250 and SunScreen starts at $20,000 with both costing more depending on configuration.
--Elinor Mills, IDG News Service

In other Sun news...
SunSoft Inc. and IBM announced at Networks 96 in Birmingham, England that they will release at the end of July a ready-to-go Internet server, built from IBM's PC Server 320, SunSoft's Solaris 2.5.1 Internet-gateway software and NetScape Communications Corp.'s Commerce Server software.

The Internet server will be priced at $10,065, officials said. The product is targeted at small and medium-sized companies seeking to connect to the Internet, according to company officials. --Niall McKay, IDG News Service

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