Special Offers

It's true you can develop new applications on your laptop on just about any operating system, but you wouldn't deploy it on your laptop. You could wait until you're ready to deploy to start worrying about scalability and reliability, but that could give your competition just enough time to beat you to market. Or, it could cause some serious issues if your application becomes extremely popular and yet just doesn't scale.

Now you don't have to wait or worry. You can develop the next hot Web 2.0, Web scale, and social applications with the tools you need — and deploy in the same on-demand environment — with the confidence that the platform that powers LinkedIn has the flexibility and scalability to handle millions of users for your applications as well.

With Sun's Web hosting and on-demand partners — Amazon EC2, Joyent, and Layered Technologies — you can access Sun's technology and expertise in building large-scale applications, and deploy them on a highly scalable and reliable platform. Sun's partners provide the right development and deployment environment for you, either free of charge for a limited time, or at discounted prices.

On-Demand Cloud Infrastructure for Facebook and OpenSocial Application Development

If you're developing applications for Facebook, OpenSocial, or other social networking platforms, you can get free Web hosting on Joyent's Cloud Computing for up to 12 months, powered by OpenSolaris and Sun systems.

What's included:

1/6th of one core, 256 MB RAM, 10 GB storage, unmetered data transfer bandwidth
Pre-installed and pre-configured Facebook and OpenSocial SDKs and libraries
All of the tools you need to develop Facebook and OpenSocial applications in PHP, Rails, and Pytyhon
Training and tutorials
Flexibility and scalability to scale to millions of users
Purchase Web hosting when applications are successful

Sun and Joyent are also organizing a multicity Social Application Tour to offer training on developing Web scale social applications on the cloud. The tour will travel to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Vancouver, Chicago, Boston, New York and Austin/Dallas between September and December. Training will cover architecting and designing social applications that are capable of scaling to deal with spiraling growth and will demonstrate how to use tools such as DTrace to identify infrastructure bottlenecks and optimize code for maximum scalability.

Develop and Deploy GlassFish and MySQL Applications

If you're a member of the Sun Startup Essentials program using GlassFish and/or MySQL, Layered Technologies offers use of a cloud computing environment powered by Sun system and the Solaris OS for up to 12 months free!

What's included:

1/16 of a quad-core CPU, 1 GB RAM, 50 GB storage, unlimited bandwidth data transfer
Pre-installed and configured with GlassFish and MySQL for quick development and deployment
Free Solaris and OpenSolaris, and optimized Apache, MySQL, and PHP on Solaris (AMP)
Free training on GlassFish, Solaris OS, and more
Free email technical support from Sun
Deep discounts on Web hosting when applications are successful

Develop New Applications or test New Technology with OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2

OpenSolaris OS on Amazon EC2 offers everything you need to develop, test, and deploy your applications — compute capacity, bandwidth, storage, and the most reliable, and extremely scalable open source operating system with features like Solaris ZFS and Dtrace.

What's included:

Pay-as-you-go pricing for computing starting at 10 cents per hour (bandwidth and storage charged separately by Amazon)
Start with 1 virtual core, 1.7 GB RAM, 160 GB storage
Scale up or down as demand changes
24x7 technical support for MySQL database running on EC2 and Linux

OpenSolaris Engineering Webcast

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Learn more about OpenSolaris Initiative: The Advantage for Partners

GlassFish and MySQL

Listen as Mark Herring , Sun's Vice President of Software Infrastructure, talks about the GlassFish and MySQL offering.

“Developers of Glam applications need more than a good idea. To succeed, you need to start small on a flexible platform that can rapidly scale from a few hundred users to several million users. "That's why Glam has chosen to partner with Joyent to offer infrastructure to developers building applications on Glam's OpenSocial-based platform.”

— Adam Souzis, Architect of the Glam Application Platform

Sun and Cloud Computing

Sun has always believed that The Network is the Computer. With more Web 2.0 applications popping up every day, it seems Sun had the right idea all along. Now you can leverage the power of the network to develop your new applications and deploy them with confidence that they can handle extraordinary success.