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Netscape Application Server was an integrated software platform

Application server

An application server is a software framework that provides an environment in which applications can run, no matter what the applications are or what they do...

. It was developed originally by Kivasoft, which was later acquired by Netscape

Netscape

Netscape Communications is a US computer services company, best known for Netscape Navigator, its web browser. When it was an independent company, its headquarters were in Mountain View, California...

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When Netscape

Netscape

and Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982...

formed the Sun-Netscape Alliance, the Netscape Application Server was chosen as the basis for its iPlanet Application Server

IPlanet

iPlanet was a product brand that was used jointly by Sun Microsystems and Netscape Communications Corporation when delivering software and services as part of a non-exclusive cross marketing deal that was also known as "A Sun|Netscape Alliance"....

offering in favor of the NetDynamics Application Server

NetDynamics Application Server

NetDynamics Application Server was the first Java-based integrated software platform. The product was developed by NetDynamics Inc., a Silicon Valley start-up company founded in 1995 by Zack Rinat and Ofer Ben-Shachar...

, which had also recently been acquired by Sun.

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