SANTA CLARA, USA: Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced the Sun GlassFish Portfolio, the most complete, open source, high-performance Web platform, based on GlassFish, the industry's most downloaded application server.

The Sun GlassFish Portfolio is available immediately via a flexible subscription-based pricing model, making it the most cost-effective solution in the market.

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"Companies are under huge pressure to do more with less, and more and more frequently they are turning to scalable, supported open source technologies," said Mark Herring, vice president, Software Infrastructure, Sun Microsystems.

"With GlassFish Portfolio, Sun is providing customers with the highest-scaling, highest performance and lowest cost, open source platform. Companies developing Web applications with the Sun GlassFish Portfolio can expect to deploy quickly, see a seven fold improvement in application price/performance at only ten percent of the cost, over proprietary offerings," added Herring.

Built on leading open source projects including: Apache Tomcat, Ruby, PHP, Liferay Portal and GlassFish, the Sun GlassFish Portfolio packages these components into a complete, pre-integrated and fully-tested open source platform, resulting in increased productivity and faster time to market.

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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.

Leveraging the GlassFish Portfolio and MySQL database

Combining the most downloaded open source application server, GlassFish, popular open source database, MySQL, allows customers to develop a unified open source strategy for developers and administrators.

GlassFish Portfolio and MySQL Enterprise are both available from Sun with consistent pricing and subscription support models so customers have a single vendor to stand behind their open source deployments.