
Saturday June 25, 2005
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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(2005-06-25 00:59:47.0)
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