I am going to graze in another pasture now. Today is my last working day at Sun Microsystems. It was one big party. I love Sun evermore now.
Thanks for all the fish. If you wish to get in touch, please email: amitsaha.in@gmail.com . I currently blog at http://amitksaha.wordpress.com
Adieus.
The winners of the second Code For Freedom contest (organized by Sun Microsystems, India) have been announced: http://in.sun.com/communities/univ/codeforfreedom/winners.jsp A very hearty congratulations to all the winning students and colleges.
A special thanks is due to Sonya Barry, who helped us relentlessly with getting all the projects on http://dev.java.net. You may view all the projects carried out as part of the contest at http://codeforfreedom.dev.java.net
Hearty congratulations and much thanks is due to all the engineers in Sun India who were involved with the contest in some form or the other- project evaluation, poster presentation, answering students' queries and so on.
On a very personal note, it is a great experience to be able to manage and help run such contests, especially when I was a participant in the first edition.
We still have the presentation ceremony coming up on18th July in Bangalore.
Congratulations one and all. May the source be with you!
The following blog post and the opinions expresses there in and their effects is strictly limited to the IEC Open Source Mela. No ripples beyond the effect is intended.
The IEC Open Source Mela is just a week away. Apart from being one of the organising team members, I am also in charge of the business plan event- Swatantra Saudagar (two Hindi words, 'Swatantra' meaning 'Freedom' and 'Saudagar' meaning 'Businessman', or a 'Trader').
What is it all about?
Simple: Formulate a business plan using only Free and Open Source software. Your business should stand on Free Software.
Now, you get the idea behind the name ? Oh well, yeah agreed that none of us are Free (Read about मुक्ति or Moksha) but atleast we can use Free softwares to build world changing business models. Making a Business plan is one thing and making a profitable business plan is another. That is the challenge.
Why does Free Software make sense?
The answer is in the question itself. Essentially, almost as a rule, large sums of money can be saved by using legally Free (as in cost) software to start off a business- a product, a dot com or a teaching academy. At the beginning, all such ventures have more time than money. This time can be utilized to tinker around with the tools to fit the specific purpose.
More..
Please read The Business of Free Software
Mela is a Sanskrit word meaning 'gathering' or 'to meet' or a Fair.
The Open Source mela 2009 is happening at IEC, Sun Microsystems, India. Get all the updates at the program blog
My writings are compiled here at http://amitsaha.in.googlepages.com/writingsandtalks I speak from experience!
Sun xVM is optimally pre-configured and secured for quick and easy consolidation and administration of heterogeneous Windows, Linux and Solaris guest OS workloads
The portfolio boasts of:
The replay of the portfolio launch is available http://www.sun.com/launch/2008-0910/index.jsp?intcmp=hp2008sep10_xvm_chat-webcast
Sun xVM VirtualBox
In related news, Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0 has been released. The release notes and other buzz available at VirtualBoxBuzz.
This is the 104 th blog post on my sun blog ! Wow!
My current rate is > 1 blog post per day !
Sun Tech Days 2008-09 schedule is up at http://developers.sun.com/events/techdays/
Kicks off next month!
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All news/views/opinions expressed in all these posts are purely mine and not of my employer. Mistakes/Controversial Comments are all mine.
