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EduConnection
May 2007 EduConnection
Kim's Notebook
Open Source
on Campus
Dear Friend,
The phenomenal growth of open source offers new opportunities for students, faculty, researchers, and campus IT. Here's how to get involved. MORE »
Kim Jones Kim Jones, VP, Global Education, Government, and Health Sciences. Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Edu Resources
»  Temple of the Sun Game
Put your C/C++ coding skills to the test and win up to $5,000 USD
»  Missed JavaOne?
Check out blogs and online technical sessions from May's JavaOne conference
»  Inside Sun Labs
Check out bleeding-edge technology showcased at a Sun Labs open house
Education Events
»  OpenSolaris World Tour
Check out events in Edinburgh, Scotland and Portland, Oregon in June and July
»  OpenSolaris User Groups
Join one of 40+ OpenSolaris user groups or start your own
»  High Performance Computing
Register now for the HPC Consortium, June 24-26 in Germany
»  Google Summer of Code
Students can earn stipends by writing code for OpenSolaris and other open source projects
Inside Technology
AMPlify Your Web Tier
Five easy steps to a scalable Web infrastructure
AMPlify Your Web Tier With a new open source stack of Apache, MySQL, and PHP (AMP) optimized for the Solaris 10 Operating System, Sun offers Education a scalable Web infrastructure for application development and deployment — at no cost. Get there in five easy steps.
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Limited Time Offer: Get a Free Solaris 10 DVD Order a free DVD — the Solaris 10 OS or Solaris Express, Developer Edition for x86 — and put the power of the most advanced operating system on the planet to work. ORDER NOW »
Technology Toolkit
Solaris Express, Developer Edition
Solaris Express, Developer Edition Keep up to date with the OpenSolaris-based distribution for x86
Net Beans IDE Sample Apps
Net Beans IDE Sample Apps Get how-to tech tips with NetBeans sample applications
Edu Insight
NetBeans: Top 10 Reasons to Switch
NetBeans: Top 10 Reasons to Switch Free and open source, the NetBeans IDE offers campus IT and students an ideal platform for rapid application development. Find out why InfoWorld named NetBeans the Best Java IDE Innovator for 2007 — and check out our Top 10 reasons to switch.
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