http://sun.systemnews.com Events http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/126/4/ev/20483 The 2008-2009 Sun Tech Days World Tour will kick off in September in São Paulo, Brazil. The Tech Days Tour will bring educational opportunities to 13 cities. It's an opportunity for those who develop in Java, Scripting, MySQL, on OpenSolaris, with NetBeans or RIA's. This conference features expert speakers and will provide opportunities learn, to network, to find peers in your community. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/126/1/ev/20408 The JavaFX family of products includes the tools and platform SDK that developers, web scripters, and designers need to create dynamic applications for the next generation of web-delivered content. Sun recently released a JavaFX Preview designed to help early adopters become familiar with JavaFX. If you have a question about the JavaFX Preview, post your questions during this session and get answers from three key members of Sun's JavaFX engineering team: Josh Marinacci, Martin Brehovsky, and Larry McDonough. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/126/1/ev/20414 Sun Microsystems and Mitel, two leaders in the field of IT and enterprise communications, have increased their momentum in delivering on their global partnership to provide an innovative and complete unified voice and ultra thin client desktop. The joint solution introduces a new paradigm in voice and data applications, and drives new levels of user simplicity, flexibility and integrated mobility. The benefits include cost reductions through high availability, reduced capital expenditures and desktop support, and lower power consumption. Attend the August 21st web event to learn more. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/124/3/ev/20112 A recent Sun webcast features Darrel Gove, senior staff engineer at Sun, and Rebecca Amey, Sun director of the HPC software, who discuss the HPC Developer Tools software and its relevance to single core users and those interested in running clusters. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/124/3/ev/20115 BigAdmin XPerts section is hosting a session on Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 Containers, which means anyone with questions regarding these two Sun products can get answers from an assigned expert. In this case, it is 10-year Sun veteran Jeff Victor, who is a systems engineer currently serving as a technical specialist advising customers about server virtualization technologies. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/123/2/ev/19888 Do you have questions you'd like answered regarding JRuby and its support in the NetBeans IDE 6? Well beginning May 19th, you may pose those queries to a knowledgeable panel at "Ask The Experts" where just that topic will be addressed. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/123/2/ev/19916 If you are interested in learning more about Sun's Open Storage platform and the OpenSolaris storage community, then take a few minutes to watch a couple of videos that highlight Sun's latest move into the open source world. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/122/5/ev/19774 Proximity community is a revolutionary chip-to-chip communications technology that allows two devices to swap data by just being near each other. Still under development, this technology was conceptually demonstrated during this year's Gartner Symposium/ITxpo by Sun Labs David Douglas, and is now the subject of a ZDNet video clip, in which Douglas briefly explains the technology and how it works. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/122/5/ev/19799 Speakers are set for the upcoming Community One and JavaOne Conferences scheduled for the first full week in May at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, including music legend and pioneer Neil Young, who will be joining Sun executives during the JavaOne opening keynote session on May 6. If you are unable to attend the conferences in person, Sun will be webcasting the CommunityOne general sessions as well as streaming the technical sessions, and hosting live webcasts of all the 2008 JavaOne conference general sessions. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/122/5/ev/19802 Sun SOA and Business Integration CTO Ross Altman presented "Getting to the Service Oriented Enterprise," which was recorded during the SOA Consortium meeting in Washington, D.C. in March, and is now available as a podcast and slide presentation. Two main topics are covered in the 53-minute presentation: 1) the benefits of open source software and open standards and 2) the challenges and benefits of SOA.