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Programs for Students

Creating the next generation of technology requires skills, support, training and an open, scalable set of tools and technology platforms. Build your applications and your career on Solaris and Java and watch your horizons expand. Students participating in Sun programs will benefit from:

  • Free on-line training
  • Support for industry leading certification in Solaris and Java
  • Access to global on-line discussion forums, open source development communities and collaborative events
  • Development of marketable IT job skills

Featured Programs

Sun Academic Initiative
The Sun Academic Initiative (SAI) provides participating educational institutions free on-line course material, access to web-based training and discounted certification to introduce students to Sun technologies. This helps prepare students for industry-leading certification, and equips them with marketable IT job skills.

The SAI program is a great way to enhance your schools technical curriculum and provide your faculty and staff with the opportunity to update their skills - all at no cost. More

Academic Developer Program
A collection of resources to support teaching, learning and application development in Solaris, Java and Sun developer tools. The Sun Academic Developer Program offers all you need to get started; Communities, web-based or instructor-led training, self-study software and books, on-line discussion forums, events and contests. More

Student Connection
Get your FREE Student Connection subscription today! Sun's new Student Connection e-zine delivers the hottest tech tools, the coolest coding tips, and one-click access to a premier collection of student developer resources and training opportunities. Sign Up

Communities of Interest

Open Solaris
An open source project. It's also a community and a website for collaboration, conversation, source, downloads, mailing lists, events and developer tools. More

Open SPARC (Scalable Processor Architecture)
The genesis of a vision by engineers, technologists, evangelists, and executives at Sun Microsystems, Inc. to create a larger community where open conversations and collaborative development projects spawn dramatic innovations around chip design.

Individual programmers as well as representatives from Universities, industry associations, supporting software companies, foundries, entrepreneurs, large corporations and visionaries have already begun to participate in this expanded community. More

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