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Sun's Customer Portfolio Continues To Grow With Major Competitive Wins In The Education Market
Santa Clara, Calif., April 17, 2002 -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. continues to eclipse its top competitors, winning new customers in competitive bids inthe education market. Sun's expanding customer portfolio includes theUniversity of Southern California (USC) and Princeton University. Fuelingthis momentum is Sun's UltraSPARC III-based Sun Fire{tm} Midframe productline, which offers the reliability and low total cost of ownership (TCO) required by educational institutions worldwide. "Sun's SPARC/Solaris systems provide the reliability, compatibility and long-term investment protection that make them well suited for theeducation market ," said Kim Jones, vice president of global education andresearch, Sun Microsystems. "Our open standards approach and ourbest-of-breed partnering strategy make Sun the right choice for theeducation community, helping academic institutions focus on the businessof education, while achieving faster return on their investment and loweroverall cost of ownership." Sun: Enabling Princeton's Services-on-Demand Needs Princeton University approached Sun when they were looking to develop a web architecture that could provide the superior security, personalization and scalability that they required. The Web is fundamentally transforming theway in which Princeton University does its work, like the rest of highereducation. The University is on a migration path that aligns Sunarchitecture as the foundation for its Web strategy. Namely, Princetonhas migrated from the old, mainframe-based environment to a distributedenvironment and adopted Java {tm} and J2EE{tm}. It is also implementing acomprehensive portal framework and investing in the building blocks of theSun architecture, including the uPortal framework. "We had never built any kind of Web application before and were consideringan outsourcing option," Patty Gertz, technical manager, PrincetonUniversity. "We found Java and J2EE to be a far better and less expensivesolution. Due to its open, scalable and services vision, the Sun ONE framework is allowing Princeton to accomplish its Web and portal strategy." USC Banks on Sun's Midframe Servers Over Competition When the University of Southern California sought a solution to run its financial systems campus-wide - which required storing, maintaining andbacking up every capital purchase, paycheck issued, and human resourcerecord entered into a central system - it turned to Sun's Sun Fire 3800Midframe and Sun Enterprise{tm} 450 servers. Employing Sun StorEdge T3arrays and the expertise of Sun's Professional Services, USC created asystem to effectively and efficiently run its financial administrationapplications. VES Chooses Sun ONE over IBM and Microsoft to Connect Over One Million Students, Teachers and Parents On the heels of these two announcements, Sun also recently announced thatVirtual Education Space's latest e-learning platform and tools initiativewill be based on the Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE). When fullydeployed, VES will support over one million students, teachers,administrators, parents and mentors in an online educational environment -aiming to improve test scores, increase school accountability, enablebetter access to learning content, and take significant steps towardeliminating the digital divide. Sun Microsystems in Education Sun is a leading provider of open network computing solutions to collegesand universities around the world, powering academic, research and highperformance computing systems, campus administration, digital libraries andstudent instructions systems. In addition, Sun is committed to connectingthe world's students to the Internet, beginning with primary and secondaryschools and extending to all levels of higher education. For more information: www.sun.com/edu. About Sun Microsystems, Inc. Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision-The Network Is TheComputer -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) to itsposition as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, softwareand services that power the Internet and allow companies worldwide to taketheir businesses to the nth. Sun can be found in more than 170 countriesand on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com. Sun, Sun Microsystems, Java, J2EE, Sun Enterprise, Sun Fire, Sun StorEdge,the Sun logo, Solaris and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks orregistered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States andother countries. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and aretrademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in theUnited States and other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks arebased upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. Back to Top
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