Sun Java System Communications Suite

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Oracle Communications Unified Communications Suite
Original author(s) Sun Microsystems
Developer(s) Oracle Corporation
Written in Java
Operating system Cross-platform
Website www.oracle.com/industries/communications/products/unified-communications/

Sun Java System Communications Suite is a collection of "Industrial-Strength" software services from Sun Microsystems. The supported platforms are: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Solaris and Windows Server. Since Oracle acquired Sun in 2010, collection is now called Oracle Communications Unified Communications Suite.

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What's inside

Support for industry standards

Multiple client support

Provides support for multiple rich clients including :

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