Sun today announced that the Chinese Ministry of Education (MOE) signed a three-year agreement based on Sun’s OpenSPARC program. The MOE sees OpenSPARC as a great way to cultivate integrated circuit engineers, and we at Sun are excited about expanding the OpenSPARC community throughout the world’s most populous country.
The MOE will start with three of China’s most prestigious universities – Peking University, Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University – with plans to expand to approximately 10 universities by the end of this year.
So how does open sourcing SPARC help Sun? The simplest way to think of it is that the students of today are developers of tomorrow. It’s key to win the mindshare of these future developers who will be key decision makers on which platforms (including servers) our customers will use.
Here is a photo of Sun Chairman Scott McNealy and Counsellor Mr. XU Ming of the MOE today at the Worldwide Education Conference (WWERC) in San Francisco.
Opensparc?isn't it too old?how about the Intel chips?
Posted by 65.208.160.194 on February 27, 2008 at 04:14 PM PST #