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Key
feature highlights
• Tightly integrated and tuned desktop client
• Easy to use and learn
• Full-featured desktop client software
• Interoperability
• Premium StarOffice™ 7 productivity suite
• Minimal system requirements
Available
from 1st January 2004
£30.00 + vat per user per year
This price includes all updates and patches.
To demo this product, please go to the download button at the bottom of
this page.
Is your enterprise looking for an alternative desktop solution that will
lower business costs, reduce the complexities of desktop management,
increase productivity, and be less prone to virus attacks? Do you want a
systems vendor that has the software and support breadth to scale and
accommodate all your business needs? If your answer is yes to both
questions, then you should be looking at the Java™ Desktop System, from
Sun. Unlike others desktops that are often expensive and bloated with
unnecessary features, the Java Desktop System is an affordable,
comprehensive, easy-to-use, and secure desktop solution.
Comprehensive
The Sun™ Java Desktop
System consists of a judicious selection of integrated and tuned desktop
software, most based on open source and open standards. The software
includes a desktop environment based on GNOME; an office suite featuring
StarOffice™ 7 software; browser, e-mail, calendar, and instant messaging
applications; and a Linux operating system. With connectors into the Sun
Java Enterprise System (previously known as Project Orion), the Java
Desktop System offers enterprises the option and convenience of a
productive, simple, and affordable end-to-end system solution from Sun.
Ease and Simplicity
While leveraging the best in
open source innovation and development, Sun is leading the way by adding
value where it matters most to the enterprise. The Java Desktop System
sports a well-defined, integrated look and feel throughout the GUI and the
applications. The desktop interface is simplified, yet has familiar
desktop themes and file manager views that will enable users to be
immediately productive. In addition, the Java Desktop System provides
reliable enterprise-level interoperability that enables users to access
data, files, and printers associated with Microsoft Windows
("Windows").
Java Technology Powered
The Java Desktop System
fully integrates the latest Java Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (JRE).
The JRE includes all the latest features, such as:
• The new Linux GTK+ look
and feel that enables Java technology-based applications to look just like
the desktop
• Performance tuning
The Java
Desktop System is an affordable, comprehensive, easy-to-use, and secure
desktop.
• Auto-updating to ensure
you always have the latest Java software updates
• The renowned Java
security model
• The ability to run tens
of thousands of Java applets and applications — and more Because Java
technology is the preferred development environment for enterprise systems
and emerging technologies such as Web
services, Sun’s Java Desktop System can be fully customized with the
rich set of Java development tools. Whether accessing data sources on
back-end servers, writing desktop software for vertical customer
relationship management (CRM) applications, or simply adding some custom
desktop utilities, the Java Desktop System’s built-in support for Java
software makes this both possible and secure.
Affordable
With the Java Desktop
System, businesses finally have an affordable desktop where users can
become immediately productive.
Sun’s Java Desktop System
offers savings of at least 75 percent in software acquisition costs
compared to Windows-centric clients.
In addition, businesses can
save up to hundreds of dollars per user per year by avoiding productivity
loss — Linux is recognized to be very stable and less susceptible to
virus attacks.
The Java Desktop System also
includes at no additional cost the premium StarOffice 7 productivity
suite, and is compatible with hundreds of additional free open source
applications. Finally, businesses can save money
by not needing to purchase a new desktop — the Java Desktop System can
run on older, existing hardware.
Security Commitment
As the technology provider
that secures the world’s highest value networks, Sun takes security
seriously. The Java Desktop System was designed right from the start as a
safe platform that leverages both the Java security model and the secure
infrastructure of the Linux operating system.
For Java applets and
applications, the Java sandbox security infrastructure provides another
means of preventing viruses from further infecting the system environment.
Enhanced security features, such as single sign-on support through Java
Card™ technology and integration with the Sun ONE Identity Server, will
also be featured in the the Java Desktop System.
The Linux operating system’s
strict security system prevents viruses, worms, and unauthorized users
from modifying system files without Root access, so it is far less of a
target than platforms such as Windows. If security issues exist, the open
source design philosophy makes them easier to troubleshoot and repair than
with a windows system.
Datasheet Java Desktop
System P 3
| Feature |
Functionality |
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Tightly
integrated and tuned
desktop client |
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Desktop
applications are tightly integrated, allowing for drag and
drop and copy/paste of text, graphics, and other elements
between applications |
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Universal
printer selection of available printers on network, to
include printers available on Windows networks |
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Unified
view of local and networked files and directories,
including shared Windows directories |
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Direct
access to content in data and files by "double- click
application launch" for files contained in e-mail,
Web pages, and the file manager |
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Easy to
learn and use |
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Intuitive,
easy-to-use, single install mechanism that ensures users
can quickly become productive |
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Easy to
learn and use, especially for traditional Windows users: |
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Familiar
desktop themes for file management and desktop
configuration |
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Standard
keyboard shortcut conventions |
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Direct
access to files with a "Documents"
default directory for your personal documents |
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Familiar
access to networked computers from a single
"Network Places" directory |
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Full product
documentation, including a QuickInstallation Guide and
User Guides |
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Full-featured
desktop client software |
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Includes a
selection of great productivity tools, including office
suite, browser, e-mail/calendar, instant messaging,
project management, drawing, and video conferencing
applications. |
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Multimedia-ready
with essential video and sound players, recorders, and
editors, and featuring a Java Media Player, MP3 playback,
GStreamer, and more |
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Complete
plug-and-play capability, enabling users to connect to
existing USB-compatible devices |
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Interoperability |
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Users can
access data stored in office productivity files of
Microsoft users and printers connected to existing Windows
networks |
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Interoperability
with Microsoft Office files |
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Interoperability
with IMAP4, POP3, LDAP, and SMTP mail servers |
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Maintenance
and Support |
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1-year
maintenance and feature upgrades |
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60-day
installation support (for single user) |
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Limited
technical support |
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Minimal
system requirements |
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Runs on
existing hardware, not forcing users to upgrade machines |
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Premium
office suite |
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Latest
release of Best Linux office productivity suite:
StarOffice 7 productivity suite |
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Professional-grade,
true-type fonts, including Microsoft-compatible fonts |
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Key
features include: |
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System
Requirements
Minimum Supported Configuration
• System: Pentium II-compatible, 266-MHz PC
• Disk Space: 4 GB
• Memory: 128 MB
• Display: 800x600 screen resolution
Recommended
Configuration
• System: Pentium
III-compatible, 600-MHz (or faster) PC
• Disk Space: 4 GB or more
• Memory: 256 MB or more
• Display: 1024x768 or higher screen resolution
Supported
Languages Available
• English
• French
• German
• Italian
• Swedish
• Spanish
• Simplified and Traditional Chinese
• Brazilian Portuguese (user interface only)
Open
Source Components, Protocols, and Standards
Open Source Components
• SuSE Linux Desktop 1.0 Variant
• GNOME 2.2
• Ximian Evolution 1.4
• Mozilla™ 1.4 browser
• OpenOffice.org 1.1 (basis for StarOffice 7 suite)
Internet
• Java 2 Platform,
Standard Edition (J2SE™); XML (eXtensible Markup Language); DOM 1 and 2
(Document Object Model); DHTML; HTML (HyperText Markup Language); HTTP (HyperText
Datasheet Java Desktop System On the Web sun.com/software Transfer
Protocol); CSS1 and CSS2 (Cascading Style Sheets); RDF (Resource
Description Framework); P3P (Platform for Privacy Preferences); MIME
(Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions); S/MIME(Secure MIME); vCard
Calendar
• iCal (Internet
Calendaring); iTIP (iCalendar Transport-independent Interoperability
Protocol); iMIP (iCalendar Message-based Interoperability Protocol)
Printing
and File Management
• SMB (Server Message
Block); IPP (Internet Printing Protocol)
Multimedia
• MPEG (Moving Picture
Experts Group); JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group); JMF (Java Media
Framework); AVI (Audio Video Interleaved); MIDI (Musical Instrument
Digital Interface); MP3 (Moving Picture Experts Group Layer-3 Audio); and
Ogg Vorbis
Architecture
• CORBA (Common Object
Request Broker Architecture); Xdnd; X11; TCP/IP (Transmission Control
Protocol/Internet Protocol); XSMP (X
Session Management Protocol); ICCCM (Inter-Client Communications
Conventions Manual); EWMH (Extended Window Manager Hints); Desktop Entries
Specification (Spec for .desktop files); XEmbed (Protocol used for widget
embedding); XSETTINGS protocol
(propagating settings to X apps); System Tray Protocol (For the
Notification Area); Icon Theme Specification; Recent Files Specification;
Thumbnail Managing Standard; Startup Notification Specification
File
Sharing
• WebDAV (Web-based
Distributed Authoring and Versioning); FTP (File Transfer Protocol); NFS
Data
Storage
• XML; ODBC (Open Database
Connectivity); SQL (Structured Query Language); Unicode
Communications
• POP3 (Post Office
Protocol version 3); IMAP4 (Internet Messaging Access Protocol 4); SMTP
(Simple Mail Transfer Protocol); NNTP (Network News Transport Protocol);
LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol); Unix mbox; MH folders;
Maildir; BSD Mailbox
Instant
Messaging
• Jabber; IRC (Internet
Relay Chat)
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