SUN and Sophos have teamed up to provide Spam, AntiVirus and other messaging protection by integrating the Sophos PureMessage and the Java System Messaging Server.  This marks a big achievement for SUN who has been stumbling a bit lately and represents the creation of a new check box on the eval sheet for customers comparing Microsoft .Net to SUNs J2EE.

Large organizations must address email-borne security without introducing another layer of management complexity or a new communication bottleneck to their network. The integrated Sophos and Sun solution enables the Java Enterprise System to communicate directly with PureMessage via channel architecture in the Java System Messaging Server.

This provides customers with high performance message processing and consolidated protection, through a seamless administrative experience, without requiring a third-party Message Transfer Agent to broker the communication. Organizations can get up-to-date protection against messaging threats using one of the fastest, most comprehensive and easy-to-deploy solutions on the market.