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20050616 Thursday June 16, 2005
JavaOne - More Performance Or A Free iPod
Further to my posting earlier in the week, we now have more details on the Solaris 10 Challenge at JavaOne.

If you're a developer coming to JavaOne this year, visit the Solaris pod (#800) at the Sun booth to check out what the most advanced operating system on the planet has to offer.

Bring us your Java(TM) applications (on a CD-ROM, USB drive or a plain old laptop with an ethernet card) and we'll use DTrace (yes, DTrace now has Java VM agents) to improve their performance. If we can't find any additional performance gains for your app, you'll win a cool prize such as an iPod or an iShuffle. It's really that simple.

Please bear in mind that this only applies to real world applications, "Hello World" and benchmarks don't really count (we'll take a shot at them but if we don't get an improvement, you don't get a prize).

While your apps are being DTrace'd, you can take the opportunity to race a Sun Executive or fellow JavaOne attendee on the Virtual Streets of San Francisco in 2049. Yep, come by the JavaOne Playground to show off your driving skills - you might get to race Scott McNealy, Mary Mary or even Duke!

The Legal Stuff (TM) Offer open to all conference attendees 18 years of age or older, except employees of Sun Microsystems and residents of countries subject to US embargo. Offer valid only while supplies last.


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