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Monday April 30, 2007

Sun TechDays in St. Petersburg a big success!
Sun Tech Days in Russia was April 11-13th. There was an OpenSolaris and Netbeans day at the end. In addition to fine presentations and demos, we had keynote addresses by Sun Solaris VP, Jeff Jackson, and by Sun's Developer Products VP, Jeet Kaul.
Participation was high, the level of interest and thirst for knowledge was high and the folks went away engaged and happy with the engagement and participation from Sun. This was one of the first Sun events in St. Petersburg, Russia at least in the last 7 years or so. Personally, I think its great that we are making waves and pleasing developers in locations like Russia and Hyderabad, India (see my earlier blogs on India's SunTech Days here and here .)
You can read some of the blogs on this here, here, or here
This is just a sampling. To get a sense of the excitement, heres a quote from one blog about OpenMP and referencing one of my bright engineers, Alexander Gorshenev's,talk: My respect and delight to Alexander Gorshenev! This was the only man whom the audience applauded standing. Thanks to his presentation about OpenMP?, I want to upgrade my hardware (I want dual core processor minimum) and install sun studio compilers, because gcc still does not support OpenMP.
Its comments like those that makes this whole thing so worthwhile . Congrats, Alexander, on generating such high energy and enthusiasm among your crowd!
Posted by tatkar ( Apr 30 2007, 01:04:03 PM PDT ) Permalink Comments [0]

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