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Streamlined Product Delivery, Long-deserved Emphasis on Sun Ray, Among Other Changes

It’s safe to say that only Larry Ellison and a few of his top level Oracle executives really know “what’s next for customers at Sun,” but there is plenty of room for intelligent speculation on this score, and that is what Paul Murphy provides in his brief blog post on that topic. By and large, what Murphy sees will be welcomed by Sun customers.

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Solutions Offer Support for 21st Century Teaching, Learning, Research

Columbia University will use an open source Sun solution to run its digital preservation project, and the University of Zurich is deploying Project Wonderland projects to advance a global eLearning initiative. The Sun Open Computing portfolio includes Sun OpenStorage, OpenSolaris, Sun Open Archive solutions and the OpenSPARC T1 processor.

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Saint Paul College Reduces Costs 70% with Sun Solutions

Minnesota’s Saint Paul College plans on implementing a textbook-free curriculum beginning this fall semester, and will offer some courses using Sun’s Project Wonderland, a Java and open-source toolkit for creating collaborative 3D virtual worlds, as part of an immersive virtual reality teaching project. The text-free curriculum was an easy decision for the the two-year technical college that has offered students access to the computer resources they needed anytime, anywhere, from any computer with Sun Ray 1 clients for 10 years.

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