Amiram Hayardeny's My China Experience

Happy Techdays, Happy Birthday, and Welcome Indiana

Sun TechDays in Beijing, the hottest technology show in town, and the release of the new OpenSolaris distribution, code named Indiana, both happening around the same dates, is an unusually positive coincidence...  On the personal side, November 3 is also my birthday.  I'm personally and professionally happy...

TechDays is an opportunity for everyone to come see what Sun technology is all about.  With no interference, no interpretations.  People come to see, hear, feel, and experience the technology.  They also come to talk, to speculate, to evaluate where do they fit in, what can the technology do for them, for their customers, and for their careers.  Developers from all walks of life, Java developers, kernel developers, application developers, Independent Software Vendors and Independent Hardware Vendors, large and small businesses, established ones and startups.  They all converge on the beautiful Beijing International Convention Center, in large numbers, and immerse themselves in the hottest technology available on the planet.  See for yourself:  http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp (Thanks James). 

Top it off with the release of Indiana, the new package for the OpenSolaris operating system, and you have yourself a technical party.

Indiana states clearly: OpenSolaris is easy to acquire, easy to install, and easy to maintain.  All the great features of an enterprise class operating system at you fingertips.  For developers, for customers, for everyone.  You can find out a lot more about Project Indiana - the new OpenSolaris in the following links: Eweek Article, IT Jungle Article.

You can download the Indiana distribution at Get OpenSolaris and tell us what you think about, and what you think need fixing.  Indiana is a live testimony to the fact that we are listening...

So, if you happen in Beijing tomorrow, Saturday November 3 (yes, my birthday), come to the Beijing International Convention Center and hear my OpenSolaris speech.  Following the speech, will be two demos.  The first will show the Sun Device Detection Tool.  This demo will show very clearly that determining whether Solaris will run on your hardware, is a short and easy process.  The second will show a project named StarFish, a NetBeans IDE plug-in aimed at the developers who really are interested in contributing to OpenSolaris, particularly on the device driver implementation side.  Sun TechDays Beijing - English, Sun TechDays Beijing - Chinese.

We will talk about Solaris Networking, Open Storage for OpenSolaris, OpenSolaris Virtualization Technologies, Open High Availability Cluster, and a lot more.  You will be able to befriend fellow OpenSolaris community members, Sun Microsystems engineers, and of course, yours truly.

Posted at 12:22PM Nov 02, 2007 by Amiram Hayardeny in Personal  |  Comments[4]