iPlanet
The iPlanet software product line was created as part of a cooperation between Sun Microsystems and Netscape Communications Corporation . The further developed web server and the LDAP server are or were among the leading products on the market. After the acquisition of Sun, Oracle used the name for some products in the software product line.
history
Netscape Communications was best known in the 1990s for the Netscape Communicator browser, which was very popular at the time . In addition, it developed server products such as the web server Netscape Enterprise Server and the LDAP server Netscape Directory Server. Sun Microsystems , however, made a name through hardware with Unix -based operating system Solaris (operating system) . As part of the cooperation from 1999 to 2002, the two companies' software product lines were merged and jointly developed. With the takeover of the 1996 founded iPlanet inc. Sun had the naming rights to the product line.
Further development
After the cooperation ended, both companies owned the rights to the software code. Sun developed the products further under the product line Sun ONE or later SUN Java Systems. With the acquisition of Sun by Oracle in 2010, products were added to Oracle's software portfolio. Oracle continues to use the name iPlanet and renamed the web server iPlanet Web server. Since Oracle has its own products in this market segment, the products will be integrated into Oracle's software product lines or disappear from the market in the medium term. AOL, however, which Netscape Communications Corporation had taken over in 1998, sold rights to Red Hat , which incorporated the LDAP server and the certificate server into its own product line and developed them further.
Products
The iPlanet software suite from Netscape and Sun included:
- iPlanet Web Server (further development of Netscape Enterprise Server, today Oracle iPlanet Web Server)
- iPlanet Directory Server (further development of the Netscape Directory Server, today Oracle Enterprise Directory Server or Red Hat Directory Server)
- iPlanet Web Proxy Server
- iPlanet Calendar Server (for licensing reasons no further development of the Netscape Calendar Server, but the Sun product)
- iPlanet Messaging Server (for email)