Sun Tech Days 2002 worldwide tour comes to India

BANGALORE: Sun Microsystems has announced the fifth Sun Tech Days 2002 a

Developer Conference at Chennai. Themed Web Services and Beyond , the seminar -

a part of the world wide tour would provide an opportunity for more than 1000

software developers nationwide to interface with Technology Evangelists from Sun

Microsystems Inc. The two-day conference on May 2nd and 3rd would deliver

lessons in the development of web services by using Open Standards, which would

dominate the next wave of computing.

Sun organizes Tech Days every year in India to bring developers up to speed

on its latest offerings and to educate them on the most current software

concepts available. It also offers an opportunity to discuss strategies for

creating applications using Sun technologies including Java", Jini"

Solaris", the Sun ONE" architecture, ebXML, Forte" tools and JSP".

With platinum level sponsoring partners, BEA and Oracle and gold level

partner, Nokia, Sun's Tech Days provides professional developers, programmers,

web developers, content providers, service providers and system integrators with

the technology, training and tools necessary for developing competitive

applications for the Internet, intranet and enterprise environments.

Sun Microsystems India Pvt. Ltd. Country Head- Marketing, K P Unnikrishnan

said that Tech Days is just one of the programs Sun offers to more than two

million developers worldwide to help equip them with the latest open software

technologies and architecture. Moreover, one of the objectives' of Tech Days is

to create a long term relationship between the evangelists and budding

developers in the country.

This year's Sun Tech Days features sessions from world-recognized computer

scientists and industry leaders speaking about emerging computer technology and

industry trends. Matt Thompson, Group Manager, Technology Evangelism; Raghavan

Srinivas, Java Technology Evangelist Sun Microsystems Inc. and host of other

speakers would share their experience on new and exciting technologies.

In addition to BEA, Oracle and Nokia, other sponsors demonstrating their

latest technologies during Tech Days are Borland, SilverStream and ILOG.