Australian Prophecy, Sun join for Java apps

The joint marketing agreement concerns Prophecy's Velatte, a Java-based rapid application assembly environment, which Prophecy says enables large organisations to build Internet-enriched business solutions in weeks, instead of months.

"Sun will expose Prophecy to a sector of the market with expenditure that Prophecy might never be able to compete for otherwise," Joseph Slattery, worldwide alliances director for Prophecy International, said in a statement. "Velatte is Prophecy's breakthrough design-and-run application assembly technology and Sun will ensure the right people know about it."

Prophecy and Sun will co-market Velatte through Sun's channel partners, allowing Prophecy to leverage Sun's credibility.

Sun will provide financial, technical and marketing support to Prophecy to deploy the new product on Sun platforms. It has also committed to help port Velatte to the Sun ONE platform and Sun's J2EE Application Server, and to participate in joint engineering and business development.

Prophecy will launch Velatte later this week at the World Congress on IT in Adelaide.