• 09:00 - 09:30: Registration and Breakfast - City CBC
• 09:30 - 09:45: Welcome & Setting the agenda - Mike Osbourne
• 09:45 - 11:45: Open Discussion:
  - Delivering best performance from T1 & T2 architectures
  - Virtualising with Solaris - LDoms, Zones and Containers
• 11.45: Networking and lunch

Sun and MySQL meetups are coming near you. This special world tour brings together the expertise, best practices, and technology know-how directly to you. Find out when they are going to be in your city. See Locations

London, UK

Wednesday, March 5
The Lamb Pub Lambs Conduit Street, London.

Time: 6:30 - 9:00pm
MySQL Host: Mark Baker
MySQL Exec: Marten Mickos
Sun Exec: Simon Phipps

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Agenda

08:30 - Registration and Breakfast
09:20 - Introduction,
09:30 - What's new and cool in NetBeans 6.0
10:20 - What, When, How, Why use the NetBeans Platform
11:10 - BREAK
11:30 - Tools for Simplifying SOA
12:30 - Technologies for Creating Web 2.0 Rich Internet Applications
13:20 - LUNCH
14:10 - Introduction to the Swing Application Framework and Beans Binding
15:00 - Introduction to (J) Ruby on Rails
15:50 - Q&A (All)
16:10 - CLOSE

Hope to see you there!

Matt

• Rock-bottom prices on systems
• Discounted Partner Hosting
• Discounted Storage
• Free & discounted Services -architecural advice etc.
• Free Software

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	Join us at 09:00 on Friday 14 December at Sun Microsystems' London Customer Briefing Centre for the Sun CoolThreads Systems Breakfast Briefing. The Sun CoolThreads Systems Breakfast Briefing is a unique opportunity to meet the world’s most advanced servers, the next-generation Sun CoolThreads systems. You’ll be able to see their ground-breaking innovations for yourself and discuss with Sun experts how they could help you meet your business and IT objectives simultaneously.
	Through presentations, discussions and hands-on demonstrations, you’ll explore:
	How you can support an unprecedented 37,000 simultaneous web users or 43,000 email users on a single-processor server. How you can save millions in power and cooling costs. How you can get up to 64 virtual systems on one single Sun CoolThreads server - for free. How our ultra-efficient clean-slate chassis design makes Sun CoolThreads systems more reliable and easier to service than ever before. How the unequalled 64 threads of the UltraSPARC T2 processor has made these servers the best choice for businesses investigating the agility benefits of virtualisation. How our unique on-processor cryptographic accelerator makes it possible, for the first time, to encrypt all your data at zero additional cost and with virtually no impact on server performance. How we’ve open-sourced our hardware and software to protect your investments in skills and applications, long-term.
	Find out more There are so many innovations in our new Sun CoolThreads systems that we won’t have time to cover them all on the day... but you’ll come away with dozens of ideas about how you can put them to work in your data centre - and you’ll be armed with the substantiated technical and financial information you need to guide your own in-depth evaluation.
	To register visit http://uk.sun.com/niagara2

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Last week saw the 2nd Partner Marketing Academy (PMA) taking place in Sun's Offices - near Camberley, UK - an event targeted at our key marketing contacts and those people that own the Sun business within our partner community.  The event built on the success of the last PMA 6 months ago and in that time has gained tremendous momentum and credibility which was clear from the number of attendees which has almost doubled with 40 attendees at the Partner Dinner and over 90 attendees at the PMA. 

This is an important 6 monthly event for partners to hear Sun's strategies and plans.  Partner feedback from the last event and from a pre-event questionnaire was used to tailor the agenda to partners needs.  A highlight for me was the inclusion of 2 partner case studies, one from SCC, a long-standing directly managed partner and another from Latitude, a fairly new, smaller partner managed through Avnet.  Both presentations gave us enormous credibility and demonstrated how Sun adds value to partners and how partners add value to Sun and the result = success.

• Paul Flannery - challenged partners to explore and monetize "the art of the possible"
• Stefan Huwer and Paul Leonard - RDA, where to focus for opportunity and upside
• Jay Huff - architecture of the 'marketing supply chain' and how partners can take Sun initiatives to market. (Eco, Enterprise, Commercial HPC, Web Scale,Developers)
• Geoff Undrell - partner success story around volume and value campaigns - 'does a lot of work for charity'
• Garry Owen - When to use Try & Buy and when to use Sunseed, the mystery explained
• Eddie Partridge - partner success story taking Sun 'canned' programmes to market with the Latitude wrapper..... and how it pays to 'stalk' Sun marketing!
• Laurence James - Climatic change and the eco opportunity, from your friendly weather man
• Jim Craig - Virtualisation - the hot topic
• Will Trotman - Enterprise Computing 'Rules OK'
  
  

In our first attempt to expand the audience of this column to other parts of Europe, here are two events of particular significance to our partners in and around London for the next month or so:

Make it Fly

Registration: http://www.makeitfly.co.uk/register.php

Dr Clive King and Phil Harman, will be presenting a morning session on Solaris performance, debugging and what is in the latest release of
Solaris 10, and why it is so cool.
Aimed at a technical audience, any partners developing on Solaris would benefit from this session, from two great Solaris minds.

Session 1: Full contact debugging with the Solaris run-time linker!
The run-time linker(ld.so.1) is fundamental to the operation of Solaris, but few use its numerous powerful debugging features. We discuss the run-time linker, what it does, why its a good idea and how you can use it for debugging a number of classes of problems. We also show how it can be used for time travel!

Session 2: The Yin and Yang of /proc
Procfs is a file system that provides access to the state of each process and light-weight process (lwp) in the system. It’s the foundation upon which debuggers like dbx and mdb are built, as well as tools such as ps, pstack and pmap. procfs is a system where you can have correct, but you can't have fast. To get a consistent, correct snapshot of a process state requires the Solaris kernel to do an awful lot of work and it can impact on system performance if used without thought. This session will help you avoid a very common set of problems as well as considering some of the wider issues around system monitoring.

Session 3: Solaris Greater Than the Sum of its Parts
Solaris technologies such as ZFS, DTrace and Zones are pretty amazing in their own right, but it is the combination of such innovations in one platform which make Solaris so much more than "just another commodity operating system".

Session 4: Solaris 10 8/07 - The fourth update of Solaris 10 brings some very important enhancements to this landmark operating system
platform. The focus of this session will be on those parts of Solaris10 8/07 of particular interest to developers.

Sun Partner Advantage Partner Marketing Academy 2007

Thursday 8th November, 9:00am - 3:30pm
Sun Customer Briefing Centre, Guillemont Park

Building on the success of the last Partner Marketing Academy (PMA) please join us at the next event on 8th November where you will learn more about Sun’s Marketing strategies, the role of our partners and hear real-life partner case studies on using Sun's Go-to-Market materials.

The feedback you gave us at the last event has enabled us to tailor the agenda to suit your requirements. The morning session will include:

•    An update on the UK Go-to-Market plans
•    Sun's strategy and the role of our partners
•    An update on SPA including the latest features and benefits
•    Customer segmentation

To view the agenda click here

Who should attend?
Key Partner Marketing Managers & the person who owns the Sun business.

The afternoon breakout sessions will include a mixture of presentations and interactive workshops customised to meet your needs.

Use this chance to meet and network with your Sun Marketing counterparts as well as other Sun partners and Channel Development Partners (CDPs).

We are sure you will find the event a good use of your time and encourage you to register as soon as possible - registration closes on 2nd November.


On the evening prior to the Partner Marketing Academy we are hosting a Partner Dinner from 7:30pm onwards at Tylney Hall, Hook, Hampshire.

Full details will be available in due course, in the meantime, please register here.