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On Thursday 26 June, Sun hosted an open source industry event with more than 80 partners, customers, analyst and press in attendance at its Menlo Park campus.

Guest speakers included:
• Mark Madsen, award winning IT architect, analyst and consultant who shared his views on open source as an emerging paradigm, how its culture and community are impacting the market and how to monetize open source solutions.
• Ian Murdock, champion of Developer and Community Marketing discussed Sun's open source roadmap and strategy. During his conversation with attendees he shared his views about how to monetize an open source business model.
• Zack Urlocker, vice president of Database Group discussed the impact Open Source is having on Database, Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse environments.

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Check out the photos from the event.

Sun is announcing Java VisualVM, a new GUI-based tool for troubleshooting Java applications. Available as part of JavaSE 6 Update 7 (available today) VisualVM incorporates various technologies, including: jvmstat, Java Management Extensions (JMX), and the NetBeans profiler, in order to provide a unified easy-to-use visual diagnostic tool for both development and production environments.

There is a public API for building extensions to Java VisualVM that allows developers to easily create their own tools for solving monitoring and performance problems. Check out the Get Started Extending VisualVM Tutorial. A central repository is available for developers who wish to share their Java VisualVM extensions with the entire Java community.

For more information, visit the Java VisualVM documentation or Geertjan  and  Luis-Miguel offer more information about VisualVM on their blogs.

Ted Leung (Dynamic Languages & Tools Architect at Sun) and Frank Wierzbicki (Jython Project Lead working at Sun) today announced during the EuroPython 2008 conference, that the NetBeans IDE will be supporting Python and Jython in future releases. The latest release, NetBeans IDE 6.1, is already multilingual- supporting Java, C/C++, JavaScript, and Ruby/JRuby. By the way, the latest milestone build, NetBeans 6.5 M1, features support for PHP developers.

Check out Kuldip Oberoi's post to find out more.

More NetBeans news: the InfoWorld Test Center recently compared nine IDEs for Ruby on Rails development. The reviewer, Martin Heller, gave NetBeans 6.1 a score of 9.0 out of 10. With the highest score among all the IDEs compared, NetBeans earned the top honors.