CEC2005

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.

Posted on: Feb 24, 2005

Posted by: lianep

Category: Solaris

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Actually some of us *are* Professional Engineers, and have the appropriate certificates and letters after their names to allow them to say so with a moderately straight face ;-)

Posted by Alan Burlison on February 25, 2005 at 12:33 AM PST #

Point well taken, Alan -- I meant no slight to those who have gone through the more rigorous path to become Engineers. While I started my academic career with an eye towards an Engineering degree, at some point the siren song of computer science wooed me away, and I try to not self-describe as a software engineer, knowing that the software development process is often anything but. :)

Posted by Liane Praza on February 25, 2005 at 07:58 AM PST #

SUPerG is a Sun sponsored external technical conference for Sun and Solaris in the data center.

Posted by Craig Steinberger on February 25, 2005 at 10:59 AM PST #

SuperG is a great conference, and external folks who do have the chance to attend definitely should. It's relatively small (which allows lots of interaction during the sessions) and concentrates on topics interesting to people who run high-end/large-scale computing environments.

Posted by Liane Praza on February 25, 2005 at 02:36 PM PST #

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