Sun Microsystems Hosts Annual Worldwide Education And Research Conference ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Continuing its long history of partnering with the education community to promote the use of technology and innovation in education, Sun Microsystems, Inc. today opened its annual Worldwide Education and Research Conference (WWERC) taking place in San Francisco from February 14-17. During the conference, Sun executives, top educators, technologists and visionaries will discuss their roles in shaping the future of education." ... "During the event, Mayor Newsom will announce an alliance between the city of San Francisco and Sun that will offer free access to Sun's StarOffice(TM) productivity suite software to all students and teachers throughout the city. More than 200,000 students in all public and private K-12, community colleges and universities, and more than 5,000 teachers in these same institutions, will be able to benefit from the word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing and database capabilities of StarOffice. The value of this alliance is estimated to be more than $5,000,000. For a limited time, students and teachers in the city of San Francisco can download the free software by registering at www.sun.com/edu/edusoft."
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