Sylvain Duloutre's Weblog

An interesting technical article has just been published about Sun's internal worldwide mentoring programs, including the SEED program I was part of in 2006.

as I joined Sun Microsystems in May 1995 to work on OSI communication stacks...

OpenDS will be integrated as part of the GlassFish Portfolio and Sun's open source identity management technologies to the GlassFish application server available on the Amazon Web Services cloud platform.

For more details, read the article in ITWorld 

This week, 4 GEC (Sun Grenoble Engineering Center) engineers and I conducted a LDAP Workshop at INSA LYON. We organized 4 labs of 2 hours each. Global audience was about 120 students.

Labs and hand-ons were based on OpenDS, the best-in-class opensource java directory server. We also integrated LDAP and GlashFish to secure a Web Service deployment. More details available here.

The workshop went well, we had very interesting discussions and follow-up with students and teachers.

This workshop was organized as part of the actions Sun put in place to promote open source adoption and complements the work of the Sun Campus Ambassadors.

A recent article from the Guardian newspaper in UK does a great job of covering how Grenoble is once again becoming a hot technology center and is now beating London on some fronts for investment in high tech R & D. It mentions Sun, covers new French R&D tax credits and associated advantages of high tech investment in France :-)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2008/sep/25/yahoo.yahoo

What Grenoble offers is an existing tech community and a huge community of science and technology students; they account for more than 60,000 of Grenoble's wider population of around 250,000. London might be strong on mobile and creative web development, but can it match that combination of talent, tax breaks and quality of life?...there aren't many offices where it's quite normal to fit in a snowboarding session before work.

The article was also picked up by Courrier International (full version requires log in)
http://www.courrierinternational.com/article.asp?obj_id=89909