No matter where you are in the world, education—particularly at the primary and secondary (K12) levels—is the cornerstone of most countries' economic development strategy. Unfortunately, many K12 school systems today face severe budgetary crises. Educators are being forced to figure out ways to do more with less — or in the best case, to do more with what they have. To do this, they want open technology standards that don't lock them into proprietary "silos" and a Web services model for deploying critical applications.
At Sun, we understand your concerns as an educator. With more than 20 years experience in the education market, Sun can help you create learning and administrative environments built on open technology standards, giving every member of the education community secure, personalized access to resources that support academic progress.
What's New
Sun Academic Initiative (SAI) Provides non-profit academic institutions with no-cost access to curriculum resources that will introduce students to Sun Microsystems technologies such as StarOffice, Solaris and Java.
Sun Education Essentials Program Take advantage of deep discounts on Sun products for education. Sun offers hardware promotional programs for schools, non-profit research institutions, and museums.
Sun Software Programs for Education Find out about special discounts to the education community on software licenses, training and software support.
City of Paderborn
The City of Paderbord uses Sun Secure Global Desktop Software to provide 21,000 students and staff with centralized, Web-based access to mixed platform applications.
Electronic Learning Products
This educational software company creates products that use music to help students improve their reading skills. By redesigning its flagship TUNEin to READING program, previously written in Visual C++, to run on the Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0, the company reduced application development time by 18 months and cut development labor costs by 50 percent.
Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium (CTDLC)
By moving to Sun Fire T2000 servers and implementing containers, this educational consortium expects to reduce footprint and cooling and power costs by 66 percent and triple the number of concurrent users it can serve.
