Sun is making good on its commitment to Education breaking down the barriers to access by fostering open source communities targeting Academic Developers, and providing wide distribution of our software at no cost. When your campus is ready to deploy, Sun offers special discounts to the Education community on software licenses, training and software support.
Free license and entitlement. Subscription offering with support included sold separately
Enterprise Computing Software including Sun Java Application Platform Suite, Sun Java Availability Suite, Sun Java Identity Management Suite, Sun Java Web Infrastructure
An open source community and a place for collaboration around SPARC technology.
OpenSPARC Community Projects are online areas within OpenSPARC.net where members can come together and collaborate to develop ideas, code, or anything else relating to OpenSPARC technology.
Access to compute infrastructure on a pay-per-use basis via its Sun Grid Compute Utility at $1/CPU-hr. It is powered by the Solaris 10 OS and Sun Grid Engine.
Deploy On Sun
Ready to run your infrastructure on Sun. Purchase Sun Java Enterprise System and or Suites with the integrated right to use entitlement and support at a deep discount for Education. Or purchase the right to use entitlement a la carte. Sun offers deep discounts on selected software products for Education Customers. Sun also offers discounted software support, free training and discounted hardware for Education.
No cost training (both on-line and instructor led materials) for participating schools.
Selected colleges and universities become authorized institutions within the Sun Academic Initiative, enabling them to deliver training on Sun technologies to their students. Option include:
