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EduConnection
April 2008 EduConnection
Joe's Notebook
Chinese Universities Choose OpenSPARC
Dear Colleague,
A new collaboration puts Sun's open source microprocessor designs into the curriculum of leading Chinese educational institutions. MORE »
Joe Hartley Joe Hartley, VP, Global Government, Education and Healthcare
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Edu Resources
»  Sun and PeopleSoft in Education
Find out what Sun and Oracle's PeopleSoft are doing to help educational institutions meet growing demands
»  McNealy WWERC Keynote
Watch Scott McNealy's remarks at the 2008 Worldwide Education & Research Conference
»  HPC Dedication at TACC
View highlights of the Texas Advanced Computing Center dedication ceremony
»  Kuali Open Source Solutions
rSmart and Sun offer Kuali-based enterprise solutions for higher education
Education Events
»  JA-SIG Spring Conference
Learn how to manage community source projects on campus. April 27-30, St. Paul, Minnesota
»  CommunityOne
Join this free and open developer conference. May 5, San Francisco
»  JavaOne 2008
Time's running out sign up for the world's premier Java technology conference. May 6-9, San Francisco
»  Kuali Days VI
Discover the promise of Kuali applications. May 13-14, Chicago
»  Sun Tech Days
Develop your skills as Sun's Worldwide Developers Conference stops in Mexico and the Philippines
Inside Technology
Virtual Worlds Offer Platform
for 'Immersive' Education
Virtual Worlds Offer Platform for Rich 'Immersive' Education Sun and the New Media Consortium have launched a project called Open Virtual Worlds to make it easier to learn, work, and exchange ideas in virtual space.
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Oracle Sun Promotions for PeopleSoft Customers
PeopleSoft Enterprise customers can now save big with Sun hardware promotions for education. Limited-time offer. MORE »
Technology Toolkit
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Edu In Action
New Collaboration Aims for Innovation
in HPC and Open Source Programming
University of Tokyo logo Faster application development and performance with Fortress, Ruby, and JRuby are among the goals of new collaborative research projects between Sun and the University of Tokyo.
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