Talk:IPlanet

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I hate to say so, but the core of this page is simply and entirely incorrect. Whole swaths of the details are unknown to me, so I am unequipped to untangle this page and correct all the errors, but I wanted to make sure and contest the basic premise.

The software company to which this article refers was not named iPlanet, nor was it even a company in a strict sense. After AOL acquired Netscape Communications in 1999, Netscape and Sun Microsystems formed an innovative "virtual company," dubbed Sun|Netscape Alliance, to sell their respective middleware products. The new entity's staff and management were drawn from Netscape and Sun employees, whose employment status did not change under the new relationship. Sun and Netscape were proud of this arrangement, where Netscape-badged staff often reported directly to Sun employees and vice-versa.

Netscape and Sun merged their middleware product lines, over time eliminating overlap. The umbrella name chosen for the software was iPlanet, a trademark that Sun owned due to its 1998 acquisition of i-Planet Inc. (The Java email client acquired with i-Planet Inc. became part of Sun's contribution to the new iPlanet product line.)

In 2002 (drawing this date from the current page), AOL shut down Netscape and laid off virtually all staff. Sun acquired most (all?) of the iPlanet products, rechristening them Sun ONE (later Java Enterprise System). Sun cherry-picked former Netscape employees to join their software development/sales/support business, while Sun employees who had been part of the Alliance were generally retained. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.125.78.194 (talk • contribs) .