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200 Technical Sessions, 117 BOFs and 17 Hands-On-Labs for 2008 Event

Sun has announced that out of nearly 1,700 submissions, approximately 350 sessions have been accepted for the 2008 JavaOne conference.

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Sun announced the addition of 14 new applications in the Network.com Application Catalog, a collection of online grid-enabled applications that are available from Network.com’s Sun Grid compute utility service on a pay-per-use basis with “Click and Run” ease. Sun also announced a new partner program, “Sun Network.com Connection,” for independent software vendors (ISVs) to create and expand lucrative on-demand service offerings to end-users at a lower risk and cost with access to new channels. Additionally, Sun has expanded Network.com’s international availability with the Netherlands being the latest of the 25 countries worldwide from where its services can be utilized.

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Sun wants to equip the next generation of Internet companies with its hardware and software and will offer virtualization products to help them keep costs down, make their data centers more flexible, and give developers multiple development environments.

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Sun’s mysterious failure to address the potentially meaty market for renting a web infrastructure to fledgling businesses appears on course for a correction. The company plans to unveil a project code-named Caroline in the next couple of months, offering a “hosting platform for development and delivery of dynamically scalable Internet-based services”.

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Eclipse enables best-selling Ada technology to better serve large project groups. ObjectAda V8.3 for Sun’s popular Solaris platforms running on SPARC and Intel processors provides a complete enterprise-level environment for the development of native Unix applications using the Ada programming language.

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In deciding to buy MySQL last month, Sun was attracted to the open source database company’s very rapid growth rate and its revenue model, Sun president/CEO Jonathan Schwartz said in a keynote presentation Wednesday at SugarCRM’s SugarCon 2008 conference in San Jose, Calif.

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If your business uses products from Sun Microsystems, don’t be surprised if you get a sales call pitching the company’s support services. That’s because Sun needs to find a way to make money beyond its traditional hardware, and services seem like the best bet.

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Since taking the reins of Sun Microsystems in April 2006, Schwartz has directed efforts to open source Java, Solaris, and even hardware (the OpenSparc chip). Schwartz frequently communicates directly with his customers and the world via his blog, in the transparent fashion consistent with more

The Sun Java Real-Time System (Java RTS) is a software product that provides a high-level development platform for creating applications which require absolute execution predictability. Compliant with The Real-Time Specification for Java it uses the power and scalability of the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) and the flexibility of the Java platform to provide the environment necessary for the growing demand of predictable computing applications in industries such as financial services, aerospace, industrial automation and scientific research.

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Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: JAVA), and the GlassFish, NetBeans, OpenJDK, OpenOffice.org, OpenSolaris and OpenSPARC communities today announced details on how developers and community members can participate in the individual Open Source Community Innovation Awards programs. Each community, as outlined below, will have its own program rules and judging criteria.

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