Two Sun Partners Earn Recognition
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IPLANET INNOVATORS HONORED
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Dewpoint CEO Rob Mock (l.) accepts the CRN Best In Show Award from Editor In Chief Kelley Damore and Sun Microsystems' Gary Grimes during Sun's iForce Partner Summit last week. Corporate Technologies also received Best In Show honors.
The first award went to iForce Partner Corporate Technologies, which successfully worked with Sun in a rollout for Iron Mountain, a records management company. The second was given to an iPlanet solution provider, Dewpoint, for using the Sun Open Net Environment (ONE) architecture in an application for the state of Michigan.
The Iron Mountain deployment included technologies from Sun, Veritas Software, Oracle, StorageTek, Cisco Systems, Check Point Software Technologies and Brocade. Ultimately, the archive could become one of the largest in the world.
Corporate Technologies worked closely with Sun Professional Services to develop a model in which both teams could collaborate in delivering the services, said Harry Kasparian, CEO of the Burlington, Mass.-based solution provider.
"The Sun representative was very open in bringing other partners into the account and was focused on doing what was right for the customer," said Kasparian.
The Sun ONE solution that Dewpoint developed for Michigan was a proof of concept two years ago and builds on a 10-year relationship. Detroit-based Dewpoint has offices in Indianapolis; St. Louis; Louisville, Ky.; Lansing, Mich.; and Columbus, Ohio.
The solution called for an application development platform that would let people apply for unemployment benefits over the Internet and included iPlanet Application Server Enterprise Pro Edition, iPlanet Directory Server and iPlanet Web Server. Dewpoint also customized the tool using JavaServer Pages, Java Servlets, Enterprise JavaBeans and the iPlanet LDAP SDK.
"There is an emerging industry around business process automation," said Dewpoint CEO Rob Mock. "You can take full-scale business processes and have Java code automated to Enterprise JavaBeans and run on an iPlanet application server, and it's LDAP-enabled. It really was a sizable stack of iPlanet [software."