[iwar] [fc:Sun.Plays.On.Security.Fears,.Targets.Microsoft.Customers]

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Subject: [iwar] [fc:Sun.Plays.On.Security.Fears,.Targets.Microsoft.Customers]
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Sun Plays On Security Fears, Targets Microsoft Customers 
By Adam Creed, Newsbytes, 10/9/2001 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170943.html

Sun Microsystems [NASDAQ:SUNW] on Monday evening launched an aggressive
assault on the Web server market, playing on fears created by recent
widespread infestations by Internet worms like Nimda and Code Red. 
Sun's target is Microsoft customers who run Web servers based on the
Internet Information Server (IIS) product. 

Last month, a highly critical report by Gartner Research advised
enterprises to consider alternatives to the IIS platform as a defense
against virus and worm attacks like Nimda. 

Sun has taken advantage of this and other reports of IIS insecurity to
attempt to boost sales of its own Iplanet Web server product to existing
Microsoft customers. 

In a media announcement Monday, Sun said the program was aimed at
companies "concerned about frequent Microsoft IIS security warnings,
including Code Red and Nimda."

A migration program announced Monday includes a 37 percent discount for
IIS owners, or users of any other Web server system.  The "trade-up"
price is $940. 

Other carrots being dangled in front of nervous IIS administrators
include free software that allows the Sun server to run Microsoft Active
Server Pages (ASP) code unchanged. 

Sun can be found on the Web at <a
href="http://www.sun.com">http://www.sun.com> .  More information
about Iplanet can be found online at <a
href="http://www.iplanet.com/">http://www.iplanet.com/> .  The
Gartner research note on IIS security is at <a
href="http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd_1">http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd_1>
. 


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