(March 14, 2003) - Sun Microsystems, Inc., has announced the establishment of a joint Java Technology Center located at the SAP AG headquarters in Walldorf, Germany. The Center's charter is to assess, promote and optimize Java technology for adoption in the SAP NetWeaver technology platform, the business-ready, services-oriented technology platform for all SAP solutions.

"SAP is delivering to the commitment of an open, standards-based technology architecture, and we consider Java technology to be a core component of our strategy because of the momentum the Java technology community has in shaping an industry-wide standard platform for e-business applications," said Stephan Rossius, senior vice president of global partner management, SAP AG. "In tandem with market demand, and, with the creation of the Java Technology Center and our work on integrating open standards-based Java technology into SAP NetWeaver, Sun and SAP have really turned the page for Java adoption, both in SAP solutions and in the SAP user community."

To support and adopt Java technology in SAP solutions, and to accelerate time-to-market, engineers from both companies sit side-by-side to:

Support SAP customers using Java-based applications, including those running on Windows.

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