A new cloud-based Desktop as a Service is being offered for educational institutions by Sun and Ashbourne Technology Group. The multi-platform service provides a virtual desktop experience for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris to most client devices, including Sun Ray thin clients and other platforms with Java-based browsers.
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The Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) is an open technology platform using Sun's open source software to connect federal government agencies and health information exchanges via NHIN-CONNECT - a software enabling interoperability across the healthcare sector. "Our progress with the NHIN shows that President Obama's commitment to healthcare reform can become a reality quickly," said Joe Hartley, vice president of Global Government, Education and Healthcare for Sun. "Here we have the public and private sectors working together as a community to help realize this key vision."
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Open Innovation Portal launched this February with the goal of allowing innovators from the scientific community, student community, and other interested areas to publish their inventions with no intellectual property rights (IPR) encumbrances. Designed to foster the development of participative innovation in society and to help transition the economy into one of innovation, the portal is an initiative of the Centre of Excellence in E-governance, Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi), along with Sun Microsystems and Knowledge Commons.
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The virtual ribbon cutting ceremony for Sun Center of Excellence (COE) held by Sun and Saint Paul College on January 21 celebrated the opening of Open Virtual Worlds. The virtual audience will be comprised of local and remote students attending the college of Computer Science at St. Paul College.
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