Sun Microsystems India has announced a technology alliance with Aunwesha Knowledge Technologies to deliver an end-to-end e-learning solution to the academic community.

Aunwesha Knowledge Technologies’ software suite, LearnITy including its various components such as Learning Management System (LMS), Online Assessment System (OAS) have been certified on both Solaris 10 for x64 (Intel & AMD) systems, Sun UltraSparc architectures as well as on the Sun Java Enterprise System.

In order to make LearnITy more accessible, Aunwesha has drawn a simple flexible licensing policy, which ensures low cost of ownership for the end customers.

According to Andrew Lim, regional director, APAC - Government, Education & Healthcare (GEH), Sun Microsystems, "We are very happy to partner with Aunwesha Knowledge Technologies to deliver a next generation e-learning solution to the academic community in India. Sun is committed to connecting the world's students to the Internet and we believe a sharing approach creates global, participative communities for both educators and students alike. Our strategy for e-learning consists of three critical components- open content, open source and open standards, which we believe will help us create next-generation learning environments for the education community."

According to Sourav Chakraborty, executive director, Aunwesha Knowledge Technologies, "For e-learning to develop into a sophisticated and futuristic learning platform, an essential prerequisite is to remove barriers to learning and the presence of open standards, both of which lower costs to education while expanding opportunities. In Sun, we found a perfect fit since Sun is one of the strongest proponents of open source and open standards."