Saturday June 25, 2005

A lot of OpenSolaris happenings at JavaOne next week
Next week the JavaOne conference is up in SF and there seems to be much preparation going on up at Moscone this weekend.  Do keep an eye on James Gosling's blog (now on roller with a great theme - cool) for more insights about the goings-on in the Java world.  And - if you like fast performing applications (or just hip ipods) - check out the Solaris 10 DTrace Challenge at JavaOne.

Now - an invitation. I want to invite any OpenSolaris users or developers and any Java developers interested in leveraging the OpenSolaris platform to the:

Java Technology on the OpenSolaris Platform BOF
Monday 6/27, 2005 at 7:30pm PT
Marriott Hotel in the Golden Gate B1 room
at JavaOne in San Francisco, California

For more BOF details about the what and the who, check out Stephen's blog entry.

And - Adam will be leading on session titled "DTrace and Java™ Technology: Understanding the Application and the Entire Stack" at JavaOne on Thursday 6/30 at 1:15pm PT in Room 121/122 (TS-5211.)  Definitely worth checking out.

Finally, Simon has organized a Free-as-in-Beer party for Java Bloggers on Monday evening.  Details here.  Have fun!


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OpenSolaris in Tokyo: A Dictionary for Source Code
Stephen Harpster and I were in Tokyo, Japan this week to meet with people about OpenSolaris.  It was an exciting week.  Discussions at universities, with customers and with the press.  Lots of delicious Japanese food - from sushi to traditional noodles to shabu shabu to tempura. (I'm going to need to work out seriously to recover from all the amazing cuisine.)  A cosmopolitan and hi-tech city.  A chance to meet some employees of Sun Japan who are strong advocates for Solaris - and now OpenSolaris.  Our host, Masatsuga Koketsu, was an excellent guide and mentor - he also blogs about OpenSolaris in Japanese.  We also met fellow Sun bloggers and OpenSolaris advocates Akira Ohsone and  Takaaki Higuchi.

Thought I'd share a photo of Stephen and me with Professor Kazuhiko Kato of the University of Tsukuba in Tokyo.  Professor Kato gave us some good suggestions and ideas for driving adoption of OpenSolaris with computer science students in Japan.  One of my favorite quotes from the visit came from Professor Kato, who was quite impressed with the OpenSolaris Source Browser created by Chandan and called it "a dictionary for source code."  That it certainly is.  Good work, Chandan.  (Photo taken by Toshinori Kujiraoka of the Sun Education & Research Sales team.  Thanks Kujira-san!) 



I've uploaded other photos from the trip to Tokyo onto Flickr and have tagged them with our OpenSolaris tag, so they should soon (but not for a while) show up on the OpenSolaris Flickr page..  Check it out!

Finally, if you haven't already looked at Stephen's blog about the press conference (or Ohsone-san's blog) - here are links to the online articles in Japan about OpenSolaris.  Warning - they are in Japanese!   And yes, Stephen's right, having 40 cameras flashing at you at once is a bit distracting.  :-)

Enterprise Watch on OpenSolaris 6/22/2005
Ascii Business Center OpenSolaris article 6/22/2005
ZDnet Japan on OpenSolaris 6/22/2005
NewsInsight OpenSolaris article 6/23/2005
PC Watch on OpenSolaris 6/22/2005
Japan.Internet.Com on OpenSolaris 6/23/2005
ITPro OpenSolaris article 6/22/2005
ITMedia Enterprise on OpenSolaris 6/22/2005

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