Sun Startup Essentials Insider: March 2009

Sun Startup Essentials Insider

March 2009

Offers & Resources

How To Create A Successful Viral Video Campaign
Gone are the days when you could upload a video on to YouTube and end up with a major international success. See what tips Web Guild recommends for creating a viral video campaign.

Writing Your First Ruby-on-Rails Web Application
Writing a Ruby-on-Rails web application is easy using the NetBeans IDE with its integrated JRuby interpreter and its support for the GlassFish application server and the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS). This article shows you how to create a simple Ruby-on-Rails program in the OpenSolaris operating environment without typing a single line of code. Learn more.

Sun Public Cloud Announcement
Sun Microsystems is unveiling the Sun Cloud on March 18th at the CommunityOne Conference in New York City. Find out all of the details during the live webcast and chat or visit Sun.com/cloud to sign up for the Sun Cloud Early Access and Beta programs, and to review and comment on developing APIs.

What's Cool

Participate in the Doodle API Contest
To celebrate the launch of the Doodle API, we challenge the Doodle community to develop useful and innovative extensions for Doodle using the API. The contest ends April 14 2009 24:00 CET. Learn more.

Tweetmeme: Push and Promote your Startup Today!
Are you a Sun Startup Essentials member? If so, write a guest post for Stewart Townsend's Startup Essential blog on Sun.com and he will promote at least three of these a week on Tweetmeme, which means you gain more exposure to your company, globally for FREE. Learn more.

Sun Microsystems and the CEO Blog Featured on Mashable
Mashable takes a look at 10 companies that have taken advantage of social media platforms as new ways to sell their products and engage their consumers. See what they have to say.
To read Jonathan Schwartz's blog, please visit: http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/

Events

Meet Us At:
The Next Web Conference - April 15-17, Amsterdam, NL

MySQL Conference & Expo - April 20-23, Santa Clara, CA, US: Sun Startup Essentials members receive 15% off when they register for the conference. Use discount code: mys09ses.
Next09 – May 5-6, Hamburg, Germany

NLGD Festival of Games - June 6-14, Amersfoort, NL
Sun Open Storage Startup Tour – Coming soon to a city near you!

Our full calendar is posted on our blog (upper right hand corner).

Startup Of The Month

German Startup Conemis AG Succeeds in Fastest-Growing IT Market with Sun Servers and Software
Germany-based Conemis AG delivers software-as-a-service (SaaS) infrastructures, offering integrated technology and business solutions for distributed software architectures and developing markets. Though planning to use an open-source software platform from the start, Conemis found it hard to build confidence among clients for the original SaaS environment, which featured disparate hardware and software. Once Conemis learned about the Sun Startup Essentials program and its world-class products at "startup" prices, it decided to standardize its whole SaaS infrastructure on Sun technology. At the heart of the Conemis infrastructure, spread between two datacenters for full redundancy, are three kinds of Sun servers - all running the Solaris 10 Operating System and offering a combination of high performance and low power consumption.

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