Sun RFID: Sun Microsystems Reduces Cost and Complexity of RFID ...

From PR Newswire (press release) ... Establishes Industry's First RFID Focused Partner Offering to Provide Technical and Marketing Resources for ISVs, IHVs and SIs BALTIMORE, EPCglobal US ...

... Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW), today announced the next phase of its support for the growing Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) market through the availability of several new solutions, including: the Sun(TM) RFID offering for iForce(SM) Partners, the Sun RFID retail compliance program, and an RFID warehouse management solution that combines products and services from Sun, SIS Technologies and SSA Global. Sun will be showcasing its RFID initiatives at the EPCglobal Conference at booth number 212. In addition, as the RFID integrator and key solution provider for Gillette, Sun will be participating in several sessions, along with Gillette, VeriSign and Wal-Mart, to demonstrate how a missing, misrouted, counterfeit or diverted case of Gillete Venus razors can be identified and re-associated with its order. ...

The Sun Java System RFID Software, currently available on the Solaris(TM) Operating System and scheduled for November 2004 on Linux, streamlines the management of RFID hardware including tags and readers. The Java System RFID Software represents a key component of the Sun RFID system strategy, which also includes global client services, global RFID test centers, Sun hardware and storage, and key solution partners for RFID. For more information on Sun Java RFID Software go to http://www.sun.com/rfid.