Sun Microsystems' CommunityOne Open Developer Conference Comes to New York City
Written by Sun Microsystems
Wednesday, 25 February 2009
CommunityOne East to Offer More Than 30 Sessions at Free Developer Event
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA), today announced details around its next CommunityOne conference, slated for March 18-19, 2008, at the Marriott Marquis in New York City. Growing in popularity since its launch in San Francisco in 2007, this is the first time CommunityOne will be held on the East coast. There is no charge to attend CommunityOne on Wednesday, March 18. Click here for full program details and to register today.
"CommunityOne's growing popularity has led Sun to add this additional conference and venue for the thousands of developers eager to participate and experience," said Juan Carlos Soto, vice president of marketing for Cloud Computing, Sun Microsystems. "As the leading open source vendor Sun is committed to growing and strengthening the open source developer and user community and we are thrilled to offer an open forum for education, interaction and exchange at CommunityOne."
The conference's general session keynote will be delivered by David Douglas, senior vice president of Cloud Computing and chief sustainability officer, Sun Microsystems. He will be joined by Lew Tucker, Ph.D., vice president and chief technology officer Cloud Computing, Sun Microsystems Inc.
CommunityOne East is a two-day event that will bring together developers, students and technologists to focus on open source innovation and implementation. The conference programs on Wednesday, March 18, are the result of a public call for papers and will offer more than 30 sessions led by contributors of dozens of open source and community projects such as MySQL(TM), GlassFish(TM), JavaFX(TM), OpenSolaris(TM), NetBeans(TM), Groovy, PHP, Apache, Android and more.
On Thursday, March 19, expert educators from Sun Learning Services will lead deep technical tutorials on building dynamic Web 2.0 websites, designing robust enterprise applications and harnessing the power of the world's most popular open source database. CommunityOne will also offer hands-on technology demonstrations and an "Open Space" for open source groups to hold public discussions.
Session details are located in the CommunityOne Catalog. The 2009 CommunityOne program will encompass dozens of in-depth technical sessions, including the following:
* Next-generation platforms: development and deployment in the cloud and virtualization
* Social and collaborative platforms: social networks and Web 2.0 trends
* RIAs and scripting: rich Internet applications, scripting, and tools
* Web platforms: dynamic languages, databases, and Web and application servers
* FOSS: open-source projects, business models, and trends
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Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the Computer" -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.
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