There was a bit of an internal push for folks to externally blog about CEC2005, the Sun internal Customer Engineering Conference happening this weekend. I don't engineer customers, but I hope I engineer (I use the term loosely here -- software developers are not Professional Engineers) for customers. Still, the sales and service engineers who run the conference will allow me the opportunity to speak about SMF at some really early hour Monday morning.
Still, with all of the technical-content talks that happen at CEC, it's too bad we don't have an external conference to focus on Sun-specific, or Solaris-specific technical information. Would people go? Certainly JavaOne is a raging success -- but the product I work on isn't Java-specific or even Java-focused. I'd be a fish out of water there. In the meantime, we'll keep pushing to attend and submit papers for usual non-Sun conferences. Hopefully a few SMF developers will be able to attend USENIX and LISA this year.
In the meantime, it's good that some CEC2005 attendees will be taking time to blog about the information presented there. Keep an eye out for posts on blogs.sun.com.
