Sun Tech Days 2009 – Worldwide Developer Conference Returns to Hyderabad

James Gosling “the Father of Java” to deliver the keynote address

New Delhi, February 04, 2009- Sun Microsystems India today announced details of its annual developer conference–Tech Days 2009. Designed to showcase how developers can leverage Sun technologies, services and products to drive the next generation of technology innovation, the three day event will be held in Hyderabad, at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre (HICC) from February 18th to 20th, 2009 with supporting sessions in Pune and Chennai

James Gosling, Vice President and Sun fellow and Matt Thompson – Senior Director, Cloud Developer Platform, will be the featured keynotes.

Sun Tech Days 2009 will focus heavily on technologies around social computing; cloud computing, OpenSolaris and Java. Sun Tech Days sessions will be loaded with technical content, practical “how to” information, examples of real-world solutions, tips on application performance tuning, hands-on training and will provide the developers the right platform to meet and interact with global visionaries and technology leaders from Sun.

The theme for this year’s Sun Tech Days program is ” Empowering YOU” and is aimed at fostering “Innovation, Collaboration, and Integration” amongst the developer community in order to drive innovation.

Cloud computing, the much talked about trend for 2009 will also be addressed at the conference. Sun will share its vision for delivering a wide variety of Sun-powered clouds – both public and private – that are open and interoperable. Specifically, Sun executives will talk about the role developer communities around the world will play in the cloud ecosystem.

Mr. Naveen Asrani, Senior Manager, Global Developer Relations and Programs, Sun Microsystems said,”Connecting communities and fueling collaboration has been at the core of Sun’s business since its inception. “Sun Tech Days will visit Hyderabad for the third time in a row and there have been several drivers enabling this city as the preferred destination for India’s largest developer event. These include availability of an excellent infrastructure to support the width and scale of Tech Days, high quality technical resources and dedicated talent pool. The audience in Hyderabad is very receptive to learning new technologies and this year’s event promises to be even more exciting with extensive sessions and updates on revolutionary Java technology and award-Winning NetBeans IDE.”

The Indian developer community is fast moving up the value chain and is becoming a key influencer in the adoption of new technologies. This is reflected in the fact that India boasts of 7,80,000 developers which is the largest developer base for Sun Microsystems in the world. Sun Tech Days 2009 will provide thousands of developers in India opportunities to empower themselves with the latest and best technologies from Sun. They can get first-hand knowledge from expert speakers, network and discuss solutions and technologies with their peers, understand more about what’s going on from Sun and the industry and all in a local environment.

Sun Tech Days 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.
Hands on Labs (HOL): Hands on development with sessions on social computing, MySQL database, JavaFX, OpenSolaris, NetBeans IDE and many 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.

The final day of the event will be University Day which will include interesting demos, sessions on the hottest technologies like Zembly ( to build social networking applications) and Java FX ( to build Rich Internet Applications

About Sun Tech Days
Sun Microsystems’ premier global developer conference, Tech Days, travels the globe to share expertise with the community about the Solaris Operating System, Java technology, JavaFX, MySQL database, the NetBeans IDE, GlassFish, OpenSolaris, Sun Studio software, scripting languages, mobile and telecommunications technologies, open source, web application development and more. Additional information is available at: http://developers.sun.com/events/techdays/index.jsp. Developers are also encouraged to join the Sun Developer Network Program, at no cost, by registering online at: http://developers.sun.com/register.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

A singular vision — “The Network Is the Computer” — guides Sun in the development of technologies that power the world’s most important markets. Sun’s philosophy of sharing innovation and building communities is at the forefront of the next wave of computing: the Participation Age. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.

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