Today's students are tomorrow's developers and Sun seems to be quite aware of that. That is why it has launched the SDN Student Developer Program, a $180 million USD initiative which has purpose of providing training, tools, research, and grants for the promotion of Java development.
The program grants students free copies of the Sun Java Studio Enterprise, NetBeans Mobility Pack, Sun Studio 10, the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) and other
Sun software products.
Sun has drawn up a ten point action plan for students who are ready to learn Java development on the Sun platform. The whole purpose of this initiative is for the students who take advantage of the program to be in the position of becoming certified on the Java platform.
The participants will be eligible for training in the Solaris 10 OS, and the ones who qualify will benefit from a 10 percent discount on Barnes & Noble books and access to a Sun hardware and software grant.
"Application and systems performance never go out of fashion in computer science, and we are pleased to see Sun taking the lead in expanding the community of skilled technicians who can help us crack some of today's most challenging scientific questions," said Professor John Darlington, Imperial College, London, when speaking about Sun's commendable initiative.
Of course, there's more to this program than meets the eye. It's very likely that Sun is trying to spot the best young Java developers and maybe convince them to join its ranks, thus securing for itself the services of perhaps some of the brightest programmers around.
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