Sun Tech Days (27 – 29th Feb 2008)

During Hyderabad leg of the worldwide event, which attracted above 9k developers over three days, focus was on Web innovation

Saturday, April 05, 2008

On 27th February '08 morning, Hyderabad International Convention Center witnessed a gathering of developers and executives representing companies from across the globe. The purpose-Sun Tech days-a three-day, global developer event organized by Sun Microsystems. This event provided a platform to the Sun's developer community, which stands tall at 650,000, and is also growing at a fast pace in India, a chance to participate in communities, share knowledge and build skills in the world of Web 2.0. The theme for the event was 'Open Opportunities' and the technologies covered were: Enterprise computing, mobility, wireless, Solaris, and developer tools amongst others.

The first day witnessed more than 5000 attendees. The event started with the keynote session from Rich Green, executive vice president, Sun Microsystems. He talked about the acquisition of MySQL by Sun, the changing application development environment, and the open source virtualization. He said “Developers are the backbone of the software industry and the open communities, who create new possibilities, inspire new thoughts and drive innovation.” He stressed on the need to innovate more and code less; he emphasized this could be achieved by using open platforms like Java SE, JavaFX and NetBeans IDE for RIA development. After his keynote, various tracks spanning over different technologies like Java, Solaris and RIAs started. The RIA sessions involved introduction of the JavaFX, jMaki and AJAX that can be used to develop rich Internet applications for Web 2.0. The Open JavaFX was also introduced as a mobile OS platform that would be completely open source and would be able to give user experiences like iPhones and Androids. The famous Euphoria band ended the first day, with lead singer Palash Sen entertaining the attendees.

Rich Green(left), ex VP and Matt Thomson(right), Director, Sun Developer Network presiding over the Sun Tech days event

Day two began with the keynote session from David Axmark, co-founder of MySQL, who explained innovations in the storage engine area with InnoDB and PBXT in his presentations. He also talked about, how MySQL enjoys a 66% of market share in enterprises including Google, Yahoo and Facebook amongst others. Similar to the previous day, there were sessions on SOA and Mobility. Topics discussed were: how OpenESB and NetBeans can be used as SOA-based integration platform and how the enterprises can use Mashups to build web-centric composite business applications. In fact, both Intel and AMD conducted sessions for optimizing Solaris on their platforms.

The final day was all about community events, where Ian Murdok, Chief Operating Systems Platform Strategist at Sun gave a presentation on OpenSolaris and beyond. The community covered the projects :

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