Friday, December 7, 2007

Sun Expands Discount Program To UK, Israeli Startups - InformationWeek




Sun Microsystems on Wednesday said it have extended its programme of offering startups price reductions on merchandises and services to companies in the United Kingdom and Israel.


Available in the United States, People'S Republic Of China and Republic Of India for more than than a year, the Sun Startup Essentials programme also supplies eligible companies with discounted rates from Sun spouses offering Web hosting services. By giving startups a interruption on Sun merchandises initially, the computing machine shaper trusts for more than gross sales in the hereafter as the little companies grow.


More than 1,300 companies have got applied for rank in the programme since its launch, according to Sun. The United Kingdom and State Of Israel were added because both parts have got had a important addition in startups and venture rugged individualist funding. "By expanding the program, we're reaching emerging as well as leading marketplaces that follow and accommodate new engineering rapidly, and we're enabling startups to acquire to marketplace quickly and economically," Juan Carlos Soto, VP of marketplace development at Sun,


Sun merchandises available for price reductions include Sun Fire and Sun Fire x64 servers. Hosting spouses include Layered Technologies, NaviSite and NTT Europe Online. The latter company, which Sun announced Wednesday had joined the spouse program, is the first Web hosting spouse based in the Europe, Center East and Africa region.


Along with merchandise discounts, Sun is also offering technical advice via electronic mail at no complaint and entree to free software, such as as Apache, MySQL and other applications optimized to run on the unfastened beginning Solaris operating system. Sun have for companies interested in joining the program.

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