Feature Story

By Chris Gonsalves

July 3, 2007 -- It was a whirlwind, ten-month tour touching 15 cities on four continents. And in the end, there's hardly a corner of the globe that isn't a little more Sun savvy.

Sun Tech Days, Sun's traveling worldwide developer conference, wrapped up in Washington D.C. on June 6, 2007 closing another successful season of development sessions on topics ranging from Java to Solaris and from open source to NetBeans integrated development environment (IDE) and Sun Studio.

"Tech Days are scaled down versions of Java One packed into a suitcase and brought right to where the developers are," says Renita Stafford, program manager for Sun Tech Days. "In the course of our year, more than 35,500 developers get to see everything Sun offers to make their life and their work better through Java and Solaris."

Attendees were treated to ample opportunities to advance their application development and Web 2.0 skills as well as to share knowledge and do some networking with others in the development community. The Tech Days sessions were packed not only with practical information, but also real-world examples and hands-on experiences with cutting-edge technology; each element designed to help developers build and deploy Java and Solaris applications.

The Tech Days team is already planning next season's lineup, set to kick off in August with a globe-hopping schedule packed with insight and innovation for the developer community.