Sun Tech Days 2008 Hyderabad

I recently attended Sun Tech Days event at Hyderabad. I was told that this event one of the biggest event Sun has after the Java One with respect to its attendance with 5000 people attending the same. I was told that around 30% are repeaters. One thing is clear its the biggest developer Tech Days of all with respect to attendees as well as sessions.

There might be couple of reasons for the same the first and foremost the kind of facilities which are excellent at the Hyderabad International Convention Center (HICC) and the other one Java is very popular among the services industry here.

The following are the interesting keynote sessions.

• First day keynote is from Rich Green went on with JDK, acquisition of MySQL, xVM, happenings with
  GlassFish,
  NetBeans, Solaris and many
  other similar offerings provide a comprehensive suite of products that
  cover the entire portfolio of software. One thing he clearly missed is regarding 'SOA' offering of SUN though it offers a complete SOA stack, when there were many Program managers from the industry.
• Second day keynote was by Oracle and it has done a beautiful presentation of its SOA Suite -- Fusion. There was one more keynote from David Axmark
  - MySQL
  co-founder. He explained about the following innovations which are a kind of revelations..
  
• Storage
  Engine Innovation (Falcon,
  InnoDB,
  PBXT
  & others)
  
• "Free" Time Innovation (MySQL proxy,
  Language Connector)
  
• Buying Innovation (MySQL
  Cluster
  from Ericsson)
• Business Innovation (open source in 1996, work with driver support from host of languages, on any platform, all compiled from one
  source code, designed with portability in mind, simple recompile for
  64-bit portability) and other different kinds of innovation give MySQL
  66% of market share in enterprises. Google, Facebook,
  Wikipedia,
  Yahoo, YouTube are some of the prominent names.
• Thirdday there was a give away for the University students who's shown their mettle at the contest by Sun 'Code For Freedom'. This enthused the participants on the University Day.

I will be talking about the few of the sessions I attended and my feedback on the sessions soon