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Hyderabad
March 3rd, 2008
Sun Microsystems' Sun Tech Days, a global developer event, was held amidst a
gathering of developers, executives representing companies and students from
across the globe in Hyderabad between February 27th and 29th.
Addressing the gathering, Rich Green, Executive VP, Sun Microsystems in his
keynote address said, "India is witnessing tremendous growth not just in
the business but also on the web. This growth would only get bigger and better
in the coming quarters. Web economy would continue to grow and new applications
would enable life on the web. Free and open source is the engine that powers
this innovation.
With open source revolution growing by leaps, application development and
project management is estimated to grow to $127 million in 2007. Applications
and content are converging and application developers are evolving. Talking
about this aspect, Green said, "Traditional models such as cycle times were
traditionally based from month to years, but now things need to be immediate and
iterative. Also, one has to create content everyday and update it in real
time."
Talking on the role of developers in this open source event, Green averred,
"Developers are the backbone of software development and open communities;
they create new possibilities, inspire thought and drive innovation."
"Open source is all about participation and as an organization, which
bases its business model on open source, Sun strongly believes that sharing and
collaborating with the developer community is the key to building
opportunities."
The theme for this year's session was 'Open Opportunities' and covered
technologies such as Java EE, JRuby, JavaFX, NetBeans, Java SE, OpenJDK,
OpenSolaaris amongst others.
With the developer population of Sun growing in the country and standing at
652,610, Green stressed that the conference would highlight the importance for
the Indian developer community to graduate to the next level of contributing,
competing and collaborating on platforms of global technological expertise. Page(s) 1
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