We are bringing together over 400 researchers, ministries of education, thought leaders, professors, technology innovators and students from over thirty countries to discuss the future of education in San Francisco next week.  Under the overarching theme, “The Power of Communities,” attendees will look at how open communities can foster collaboration and learning, improve access to education, and encourage innovation around eco-responsibility.

Scott McNealy, Chairman of the Board of Directors, and Joe Hartley, Vice President  of Global Government, Education and Healthcare, will be hosting a media roundtable at 12:40pm on Wednesday, February 27. Please contact me at rebecca.lui@sun.com if you’re interested to attend. Here is the agenda for the conference.

This is truly a Web 2.0 conference where attendees are already posting photos and meeting other attendees in the virtual world before the face-to-face meetings next week.

Sun Campus Ambassadors will be reporting to you live from the show. Remember to check out their blogs.

-Ezequiel Singer, Argentina;

-Greg Corbin, United States;

-Kumar Abhishek, India;

-Vincent Ding, China

A replay of this morning's conference call with Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz and MySQL AB CEO Marten Mickos will be available through January 24 by dialing: 

US: (888) 566-0103
Outside the US: (402) 998-0958.

No passcode is required to access the replay.

Jonathan's blog posting on today's news is available here. 

The online press kit, including today's press release and executive photos, is available here. 

Startup Camp 2 Open for Registration

Sun Microsystems Invites Startup Community to Second Un-Conference

Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: SUNW) will hold its second-ever Startup Camp (http://www.startupcamp.org) at the Westin San Francisco Market Street Hotel in San Francisco on May 7, 2007, CommunityOne day of the JavaOne conference. A no cost, un-conference style event, Startup Camp 2 is dedicated to bringing together the various members of the startup community for a face-to-face, collaborative meet-up where the attendees drive the agend and maintaing an ongoing community online.  

Startup Camp 2 makes use of the Open Space methodology by creating an intimate atmosphere where all who attend are encouraged to both contribute and learn. The conference involves leader nominated sessions where all attendees are encouraged to contribute to the discussions. To publish topic ideas for discussion sessions or view those that others are proposing, please visit the Discussion Ideas page at: http://wiki.startupcamp.org/wiki/StartupCamp2DiscussionIdeas.

The event will also host a round of SpeedGeeking sessions where startup founders can compete in the Best Startup Contest. In addition to the opportunity to present a 5-minute pitch of their business to small groups of attendees, the participants who receive the most votes win  prizes such as a personal GPS system.

Sun also invites Startup Camp attendees to join a CommunityOne reception at the at Moscone Center from 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. on May 7. All attendees who are or become Sun Developer Network  members are invited to experience the 2007 JavaOne conference on Tuesday, May 8 (complimentary one-day access to the General Sessions, the JavaOne Pavilion and Welcome Reception, and two (2) technical and/or BOF sessions)

WHAT: Sun Startup Camp 2

WHEN: Monday, May 7, 2007; 8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. PT

WHERE: Westin San Francisco Market Street (formerly the Argent)

50 Third Street, San Francisco


For more information and to register for this complimentary event, please go to: http://www.startupcamp.org <http://www.startupcamp.org/>

Startup Camp 2 is a response to the overwhelming enthusiasm expressed by attendees at Startup Camp 1, held in November 2006. For this year's event, Sun has incorporated feedback from Startup Camp 1 to further improve the conference and better cater to the interests of the startup community. As the following quotes attest, Startup Camp 1 attendees particularly appreciated the collegial, informal, interactive format of the event.

“The value of the format comes in the ability to provide the attendees with an intimate experience where people must talk to each other. This conference did the best I've seen yet at getting a large group of people to talk amongst themselves. The more it can do that, the better it will be and the greater buzz it will generate.”

“I very much appreciated the great support that Sun and the other partner companies provided in terms of the venue, the causal atmosphere, and the lack of any real pressured marketing. When attending no-charge events in the past, I usually have to fend off marketing people at every turn and I was pleasantly surprised to find the staff members from sponsoring companies attending the sessions and participating in the discussions rather than trying to sign me up for services or promoting their wares in the sessions.”


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This week at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, Sun is demonstrating a complete end-to-end software stack designed to make it easy for customers to deploy and manage Oracle database solutions. Comprised of the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS), Sun Cluster 3.2, and the Sun N1 software suite, and Sun Fire servers, Sun's solution demonstrates the ability to deliver complete Oracle deployments on both x64 and SPARC-based systems with best-in-class high availability, manageability and performance for customers in enterprise and database grid markets.

The availability of this complete solution on AMD-based servers from Sun and other system vendors is generating tremendous interest at Sun's booth, #1402, on the floor at Moscone Center.

Using similar technology, Pixelpark AG automated its server and software installation and deployment processes for a 97% reduction in deployment time. "The saving compared with the former procedure amounts to 97% for application deployment alone," noted Uwe Bartels, System Architect, Pixelpark AG. "Jobs that used to occupy expensive system architects for three to four hours are handled by the automated solution in five minutes. I am delighted at the project's success."