VIRTUAL EDUCATION SPACE SELECTS SUN ONE FOR NEXT-GENERATION ONLINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTVIRTUAL EDUCATION SPACE SELECTS SUN ONE FOR NEXT-GENERATION ONLINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTFirst Sun ONE deployment in K-12, VES Provides an Online Learning Community to Promote Better Access to Educational Content for Students, Teachers and Parents
SANTA CLARA, CA -- January 16, 2002 -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced that Virtual Education Space (VES) launched the latest version of its e-learning platform and tools initiative based on Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE). When fully deployed, VES will support 2 million students, teachers, administrators, parents and mentors in an online educational environment - aiming to help improve test scores, increase school accountability, enable better access to learning content, and take significant steps toward eliminating the digital divide. The VES deployment represents the first Sun ONE implementation in the K-12 market.Sun ONE is Sun's vision, architecture, platform and expertise for developing services on demand today, enabling institutions to provide data and applications to anyone, anytime, anywhere on any device. In order to provide universal access and customized tools and resources, VES chose Sun ONE for its scalability, standards-based architecture, and the delivery of educational applications to fixed and mobile users with a common platform. "As one of the largest publicly owned and operated e-learning environments in the world, VES chose Sun over IBM and Microsoft because Sun provides the most scalable, affordable, fault tolerant, open, standards based architecture which enables us to meet our unique challenges," said TS Vreeland, architect and chief technologist, VES. "Sun ONE is helping us to grow our vision of empowering teachers, parents and students in a unified online learning environment, providing better access to educational content to improve the learning experience for everyone." "Sun ONE helps eliminate the digital divide and provides the anytime, anywhere access that organizations such as VES require to provide students and teachers with an open e-learning environment," said Kim Jones, vice president of global education and research, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "As the first major Sun ONE implementation for K-12, the VES deployment will serve as an example for other open e-learning environments that are growing nationwide." The VES deployment of the Sun ONE architecture includes a range of Sun systems, including Sun Fire 208R servers, Sun StorEdgeT3 arrays and the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE). VES' core infrastructure is based on the iPlanet Directory server, iPlanet Calendar server and iPlanet Messaging server, all of which run on the UltraSparc III-based Sun Fire server line with the Solaris 8 Operating Environment. This end-to-end solution provides the open, scalable and reliable environment that allows VES to communicate with other applications and components via industry standards. VES Educational Collaborative is a non profit educational collaborative established in April 2001 under the provisions of Chapter 40 of the General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for the purpose of improving teaching and learning in Massachusetts, through the development, evaluation, and research of the Virtual Education Space(VES) Project in partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Education. VES has been designed by public educators, state education officials, and technical experts to provide teachers, student, and parents with a Web portal containing an integrated suite of tools that will improve their ability to teach students in a standards-based, high-stakes environment. Sun Microsystems in EducationSun is a leading provider of open network computing solutions to colleges and universities around the world, powering academic, research and high performance computing systems, campus administration, digital libraries and student instructions systems. In addition, Sun is committed to connecting the world's students to the Internet, beginning with primary and secondary schools and extending to all levels of higher education. For more information: www.sun.com/edu About Sun ONESun ONE, the integration of Sun's award-winning portfolio of software products, is Sun's vision, architecture, platform and expertise that enables the development and delivery of services on demand. Through its open, integratable architecture, Sun ONE extends current enterprise systems to help reduce costs and complexity while improving organizations' return on assets. Sun ONE represents a significant initiative in Sun's evolution to providing an open end-to-end architecture building on the company's offerings across systems and development environments. Further information is available at www.sun.com/sunone/. About Sun Microsystems, Inc.Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW), to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that power the Internet and allow companies worldwide to take their businesses to the nth. With $18.3 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 170 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com.
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