Sun announces Sun Tech Days

SANTA CLARA, USA: Sun Microsystems Inc., has announced the details of the Sun Tech Days worldwide developer conferences for 2008-2009. Sun Tech Days is a 13-city world tour designed to showcase how developers can leverage Sun technologies, services and products to drive the next generation of industry innovation. Since 2000, Sun Tech Days has seen a six-fold increase in attendance numbers and now reaches over 100,000 developers each year via multiple outreach programs, including over 30,000 'in-person' developers at the local events around the world.

Sun Tech Days are loaded with technical content, practical "how to" information, examples of real-world solutions, tips on application performance tuning, hands-on training and more. The theme for this year's Sun Tech Days program is “Next Generation Developers Drive Innovation” and the first event for 2008-2009 is in Sao Paulo, Brazil from September 29-October 1, 2008. Jim Parkinson, vice president, Developer, Tools and Services at Sun will be the featured keynote. Kaj Arno, vice president of MySQL community relations for Sun's new Database Group will also be attending the event.

Each Tech Days event for 2008-2009 will be broken into four tracks:

• Java & Social Computing: Innovations on the Java platform and social networking technology
• MySQL & Productivity: Web 2.0 development leveraging Sun's MySQL database, and productivity technology
• OpenSolaris: Solaris innovations and application development for the IPS repository
• HOL: Hands on development with sessions on social computing, MySQL database, JavaFX, OpenSolaris, NetBeans IDE and others

The Tech Days program will also include:

• Demo Showcase: Six demos highlighting JavaFX, mashups, social computing, OpenSolaris, PHP/NetBeans and cloud computing
• Lighting Talks: Content organized and delivered by community speakers around the different track topics

In addition, some of the Sun Tech Days events will have an extra day of deep dive content where attendees can choose from either a dedicated advanced training session on the NetBeans IDE, highlighting new features and solutions or a targeted event for students illuminating challenges and opportunities with next generation technology innovation.