Sun Offers New Academic Services On the Web; Students and Professors Can Continually Update IT Skills on the Sun Web Learning Center.Business Editors &High-tech Writers PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 2000 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. (Nasdaq:SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ) today announced new academic services that allow students and professors to educate themselves about the latest Sun(TM) technologies. These new services are available to selected colleges and universities through the Sun Web Learning Center. With the new services, students in academic institutions can take courses on a wide range of topics and gain an understanding of Sun dot-com technologies and their applications. &uot;Learning Sun's newest technologies helps ensure that professors and students remain on the cutting edge of the dot-com age,&uot; stated Bill Richardson  This article or section contains information about one or more candidates in an upcoming or ongoing election.Content may change as the election approaches. , vice president and general manager of Sun Educational Services. &uot;With this knowledge, students will be better equipped to succeed in the e-commerce environment.&uot; The Sun Web Learning Center provides quick and easy access to Sun's interactive information technology courseware via the Internet. It offers Web-based courses that are platform independent, delivered through your web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. , and can be taken in sections. Using the Sun Web Learning Center, students can work at their own pace and from any location; all they need is an Internet connection. Thus, individual professors may offer this benefit to their students free of charge and without an additional hardware investment. Course topics covered include:
-- The Solaris(TM) Operating Environment -- a premier computing
environment for the dot-com age
-- Java(TM) technologies -- the platform for multi-tier enterprise
applications
-- Jini(TM) technologies -- an architecture supporting a community
of heterogeneous network devices
-- StarOffice(TM) suite -- the powerful, cross-platform office
productivity suite that delivers seamless access to application
and files
Sun Educational Services will continue to update the topics available as new technologies are introduced, keeping students and professors informed about Sun's most recent innovations. Service Availability The new Sun Web Learning Center services for academic institutions are available now throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and are expected to be available in Europe starting April 1. To find out more about the Sun Web Learning Center academic services, please visit http://www.sun.com/service/suned/WLC/academic. About Sun Educational Services Sun Educational Services trains over 120,000 students each year at 200 training centers located in more than 50 countries. It offers comprehensive education consulting services Noun 1. consulting service - service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.) service - work done by one person or group that benefits another; "budget separately for goods and services" and courseware, addressing customer demand in key areas: IT management; end user; system administration and management; Internet/intranet; security; Java technology programming; and hardware maintenance. Sun Educational Services offers a complete catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. of instructor-led and technology-based training; instructor-led courses are also available through training centers around the world. Please check the Sun Educational Services website at http://www.sun.com/service/suned for prices and availability. About Sun Microsystems, Inc. Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- The Network Is The Computer(TM) -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq:SUNW), 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. Note to Editors: Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Solaris, Java, Hot Java, The Network is the Computer, Jini, StarOffice, and all Java based trademarks and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. Netscape Navigator An earlier Web browser for Windows, Macintosh and X Windows from Netscape that provided secure transmission over the Internet. Soon after its introduction in 1994, Navigator, or just "Netscape," as it was commonly called, quickly became the leading browser on the Web. is a trademark or registered trademark of Netscape Communications Corporation (company) Netscape Communications Corporation - (Formlerly "Mosaic Communications Corporation", MCC) A company set up in April 1994 by Dr. James H. Clark and Marc Andreessen <marca@netcom. in the United States and other countries. Press announcements and other information about Sun Microsystems are available on the Internet via the World Wide Web using a tool such as Netscape Navigator or Sun's HotJava. Type http://www.sun.com at the URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. prompt. |
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