[pso] Fwd: IBM Announcement: Six new on-line students offerings!

Tue Jul 15 16:21:10 EEST 2008

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Subject: IBM Announcement: Six new on-line students offerings!
Date: Tuesday 15 July 2008
From: Anamaria Dogar <anamaria.dogar at ro.ibm.com>
To: undisclosed-recipients:

IBM is announcing the availability of six new on-line students offerings. 
Please forward this message to your students.
With access to tutorials, forums, games and other resources, IBM is 
helping students develop marketable skills in hot job areas such as 
enterprise computing, Web 2.0 programming and database management.  We 
have created simple step-by-step roadmaps in an easy-to-use organized 
format so that students can independently familiarize themselves with the 
technology and/or topic and expand their skills profile.

Database Technology 
Designed for students interested in open standards-based Relational 
Database Management Systems, the DB2 Express-C student offering includes 
an introduction to the technology, free download of the software, access 
to a support forum, games and hands-on tutorials for enhanced learning, 
publications, and prep materials for certification exams. 

Enterprise Computing 
The Enterprise Systems student offering will provide students with an 
introduction to the mainframe and large systems-related careers focused 
around the New Enterprise Data Center, IBM's best practices model for 
virtualization, green IT, service management and cloud computing.  Access 
to mainframe-focused games in Second Life, instructions on how to gain 
remote access to a live mainframe hub, and experience labs and exercises 
based on components of IBM's "Master the Mainframe" contest from prior 
years are also available on the site.

Situational Applications and Web 2.0
WebSphere sMash is an agile development environment optimized for 
producing rich REST-style services, integration, mashups and user friendly 
Web interfaces through scripting runtimes such as Groovy and PHP.  This 
student offering includes an introduction to the technology and free 
software download, hands-on tutorials and other resources for learning, 
and access to the development community (located at ProjectZero.org) which 
delivers frequent builds, latest features, and developer's forums. 

SSME
To prepare students with skills for use in the services sector, 
universities will need a multi-disciplinary curriculum that covers the 
study of people, business and technology in service systems. The SSME 
tutorial includes resources for discussion and interaction through the use 
of case studies. Contrasts between the manufacturing and service sector 
issues are raised to understand differences in supply chain, information 
systems and operations practices.

Team-Based Development
Jazz is Rational?s future platform for collaborative software delivery 
that will transform how people work together to deliver software and 
embedded systems.  Students will be introduced to the Jazz platform and 
provided a free download of the Rational Team Concert software, access to 
the Jazz community and a wealth of learning resources.

Web Server Technology
WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (WAS CE) is a lightweight 
Java EE 5 application server based on the open source technology delivered 
in Apache Geronimo. It harnesses the latest developments from the 
open-source community and provides a readily accessible and flexible 
foundation for Java application development.  Students can now 
"kick-start" their Java applications with this leading-edge technology 
with an offering that includes an introduction to WAS CE, free download of 
the software, quick-start and user guides, access to Eclipse updates to 
WAS CE, and rich articles and tutorials demonstrating hands-on use of the 
technology.

All of these no-charge student offerings are available through the IBM 
Academic Initiative?s Student Software Catalog, accessible via IBM Student 
Portal at http://www.ibm.com/university/students/.  The Enterprise 
Computing module is the only offering at this time that requires faculty 
permission to obtain.  This specific student module gives students the 
ability to obtain an ID and password for access to an actual System z 
environment. This is not a benefit we're able to offer any student at this 
time.  They must be given permission to access this module by a faculty 
member who is a member of the IBM Academic Initiative.

Best regards,
Anamaria Dogar
IT Specialist
IBM Romania - Linux Competency Center
Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, building ED,
3rd floor, room ED309
Spl. Independentei 313, Sector 6, Bucharest, Romania
Mobile: +40 721 485 276
E-mail: anamaria.dogar at ro.ibm.com
www.linuxcenter.ro

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