Tuesday September 23, 2008

For the second subsequent time Sun Microsystem has been ranked among top 20 best employers. As per 8th annual Dataquest-IDC survey,Sun Microsystem achieve 19th best IT employer status.
Sun's position in IT industry is largely driven by high employee satisfaction, employee growth, retention and new age priority: work-life balance. Despite all the turbulence, Sun Microsystem is taking care of its employees and this is evident from the outcome of survey.

Check out more details on the survey here

Sunday December 16, 2007

Simon Phipps, Chief Open Source Officer@Sun was in India last week to present a talk. During his visit in India he announced a "Sun Open Source Community Innovation Awards".
This for sure is one of its kinds where Sun will divide $1M amongst its six Sun owned/controlled FOSS communities. Communities in turn will propose how to use the cash to award contributors.

This year's participants include
OpenJDK,
OpenSolaris,
GlassFish,
NetBeans,
OpenSPARC, and
OpenOffice.org

This initiative would enable Sun to reach thousands of Open source contributors who wish to contribute for an open source technology. This for sure is going to result in upsurge in growing opportunities for everyone.

Wednesday August 29, 2007

Dataquest-IDC recently did a survey to ascertain "Best Employers in India".
The survey included around 3000 software, hardware and marketing professionals from 33 IT companies.
The results of the survey are announced and Sun is ranked as 10th best employer in India.

According to Mr. Pradeep Gupta, Publisher of CyberMedia, "Sun Microsystems with an employee base of about 1,000 made its entry into the Dataquest-IDC Best Employers listing at No, 10 largely driven by a high employee satisfaction score. It scores high on compensation and topped the rank on the new age priority, work-life balance."

Elaborate survey-outcomes can be found at
IT best employers:Dataquest-IDC survey
ibnlive.com

Tuesday March 06, 2007

SunTech Days@Hyderabad as anticipated was a huge success and by far so much has been written about it. I was in a retrospection mood today and was browsing through various SunTech pertaining articles.

> For the very first time the conference was held in four cities. Hyderabad being the central hub, it was anchored out via satellite to Pune, Mumbai and Delhi.
> Started in 2000, conference was attended by 126 people. In the last seven years the figure has surged to close to 10,000 this year.
> Last but not the least, I came across an article published in Hindu which got my attention instantly - Where Java means Jai Hind. Looking at Java's contribution to Indian economy, this is destined to happen.

Sunday February 18, 2007

And Sun has done it again –

Sun recently open sourced Woodstock Project under very flexible CDDL License.
The effort is devoted to development of web-UI components based on JSF and Ajax. Woodstock essentially provides a rich collection of JSF components for developing enterprise-level web applications. These components are fully localized for 10 languages. It enables users to adhere a uniform set of guidelines while being easy to use and develop at the same time.

Wood stock components as well contain functionality to enable their use in NetBeans Visual Web Pack 5.5 for easy web application development via dragging and dropping components onto a layout page. This allows developer to visually organize their application as they build it.

Wood stock placeholder on java.net has a repository for technical documentation and detail preview of Woodstock components.

Having used the earlier version and a quick peek on Woodstock, I can say Woodstock will surely help developers to churn out powerful & intuitive web applications quickly.

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