Wipro and Sun Microsystem set up Sun Center of Excellence for Java

Bangalore, Apr 6 (UNI) Sun Microsystems India Private Limited and Wipro Technologies today announced the setting up of the first-ever Sun Center of Excellence (CoE) for Java Enterprise System in India.

This new Sun CoE joins a worldwide network of institutions and organizations that will develop projects using Sun's Java Enterprise System. It will assist customers in India as well as globally on leading technology solutions around hot technology paradigms such as Identity Management, Portal technologies, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Grid Computing, according to a release here.

The CoE will serve as a lab for Wipro Technologies to develop and maintain re-usable solutions and architectures based on the Java Enterprise System. It will also act as a reference point for Wipro to internally train engineers on the technology as well as to demonstrate to its clients the solutions offered.

The state-of-the-art laboratory is equipped with best-of-breed infrastructure such as Sun servers running the Solaris (TM) 10 Operating System (OS), and Sun Storage arrays, amongst others. Apart from the state-of-art Customer Solution Center, Wipro has made investments in developing a pool of technical personnel who have thorough knowledge and experience on Java Enterprise Systems and other related Sun technologies.

Sun Microsystems Senior Director (Software Engineering) Yousef Yacoub said that "Sun's worldwide Centers of Excellence program promotes collaboration in the industry and helps build new technologies and communities. Sun and Wipro Technologies share a common vision for the advancement of technology use and bringing faster, more precise results to both the public and private community through leading technology." "We are very excited to be a Global System Integrator of Sun for the Solaris 10 (OS). All its capabilities, combined with our global delivery model make us the partner of choice for the new enterprise architectures around the Sun platform," Wipro Technologies President (Product Engineering) Ramesh Emani said.

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