Sun's Dot-Com Development Tools Now Free to Global Education Community.Business Editors &High-Tech/Education Writers BARCELONA, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 2000 Forte(TM) Tools Join Solaris(TM), StarOffice(TM) and Java(TM) Technology With Free Licenses for Educators and Students European Education European Education: Issues and Studies is a quarterly journal of education. Established in 1969, it presents contemporary issues and studies in European education. The journal includes articles on education policy, theory and practice. Its ISSN number is 1056-4934. and Research Conference -- Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , Inc. today announced that its Forte(TM) product line of software development and integration tools are now available free to qualified educators, students and educational institutions. &uot;To adapt to the .com and .edu worlds, educators and institutions need to marry their artistic ability to innovate with the agility of the Internet,&uot; said Patricia C. Sueltz, president of Software Products and Platforms at Sun Microsystems, Inc. &uot;By providing leading development and application integration tools for free to a pooled resource of talent, Sun is helping the education and research community realize their .com goals rapidly while reducing cost and risk.&uot; Sun's Forte tools are used by companies around the world that need to dot-com their businesses, including: -- Forte for Java An earlier family of Java development environments from Sun. The products included an editor, compiler, debugger, object browser and JavaBean creator plus the ability to edit and view HTML files. (TM) software, a scalable Java integrated development environment (IDE) used to build dot-com applications, from simple to complex. -- Forte Fusion Application integration software that runs on Unix, Windows NT, VMS and mainframes from Sun. It provides a process engine that interacts with heterogeneous applications via XSL-based rules. (TM) software, an XML-based enterprise application integration (EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) Refers to various techniques used to share data and business processes in large enterprises. When companies acquire another organization, disparate information systems have to be made to work together. ) suite for integrating business processes and creating effective e-commerce systems. -- Sun WorkShop(TM) software, for creating dot-com applications that take advantage of the new features in the Solaris(TM) 8 Operating Environment. -- Forte Application Environment for building new application components, integrating external application components and automating entire multi-step business processes. Sun is a leading provider of open network computing See ONC. Open Network Computing - (ONC) Sun's network protocols. solutions to libraries and institutions around the world, powering academic research and high performance computing systems, campus administration, digital libraries and student instruction systems. In addition, Sun is committed to connecting the world to the Internet, beginning with primary and secondary schools and extending to all levels of higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. . &uot;Sun is providing the building blocks for tomorrow's technology and Internet innovators,&uot; said Dr. Richard Gowen, President, South Dakota South Dakota (dəkō`tə), state in the N central United States. It is bordered by North Dakota (N), Minnesota and Iowa (E), Nebraska (S), and Wyoming and Montana (W). School of Mines &Technology. &uot;Making Forte tools available to our students and researchers begins the invention of the Web and e-commerce machine of the future. It is an investment which will reap immeasurable rewards.&uot; To date, more than 2,000 colleges and universities have licensed the Solaris(TM) Operating Environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. and nearly 7,000 Java technology licenses have been issued under the Free Java Software for Teaching program. And in the past five months, Sun's servers have delivered 1.5 million copies of StarOffice(TM) software, a full-featured, integrated dot-com office suite. Sun's extensive contributions to the global academic community include programs such as the Academic Equipment Grant (AEG AEG Aeger (Latin: Sick) AEG Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft (Common Electricity Company) AEG Aircraft Evaluation Group AEG Association of Engineering Geologists AEG Air Expeditionary Group ) Program, Authorized Academic Java Campus(SM) Program, Collaborative Research (CR) Program, Open Gateways Program, STEP (System Administration Training &Employment) Program, The Sun Foundation, and Sun Community Source Code Licensing. For more information on Sun in Education, visit http://www.sun.com/edu/. For more information about Sun's Forte product line, please visit http://www.sun.com/workshop/. About Sun Microsystems Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- The Network Is The Computer(TM) -- has propelled Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq:SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ) to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that power the Internet and allow companies worldwide to &uot;.com&uot; their businesses. With $12.4 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 170 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://www.sun.com. Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, The Network Is The Computer, Solaris, Forte, Forte Fusion, Sun WorkShop, StarOffice, Java and Authorized Java Campus are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and in other countries. |
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