OpenSolaris Set to Rock 2009 CommunityOne Conference

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced a series of OpenSolaris(TM) events taking place as part of the 2009 CommunityOne conference, June 1-3, 2009, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Full details on OpenSolaris activities at CommunityOne are available at: http://www.opensolaris.com/communityone/.

Kicking off the CommunityOne conference at 9:00 a.m. PDT on June 1 will be the opening general session keynotes, delivered by John Fowler, executive vice president of Systems, and Dave Douglas, senior vice president of Cloud Computing and Chief Sustainability Officer, Sun Microsystems.

OpenSolaris Technical Sessions and Deep Dive Sessions

For the CommunityOne technical sessions on June 1, OpenSolaris content will be featured as part of the general Operating Systems/Platform track. There will also be two OpenSolaris software specific tracks, one for developers and one for system administrators. Developing On OpenSolaris will walk an application developer from creating/porting an application, to testing and finally publishing/contributing the application to an OpenSolaris repository. Managing OpenSolaris will show system administrators how to deploy OpenSolaris in their environment focusing on storage, networking and security features. On Tuesday, June 2, developers and systems administrators can also participate in OpenSolaris deep-dive sessions.

For those who can not attend CommunityOne in person, the opening general session key notes and the OpenSolaris technical sessions will also be available online at: http://www.opensolaris.com/communityone/.

OpenSolaris Install Lounge

Located in Booth #322 on the Pavilion floor, the OpenSolaris Install Lounge is a place for students, developers, rockers and all attendees of the CommunityOne and JavaOne conferences. The Install Lounge will consist of three areas: an OpenSolaris Install Fest area, RockBand 2 area and the "Apps of Steel” showcase area, which will highlight the winners of the Apps of Steel Challenge. The OpenSolaris Install lounge provides a unique opportunity for attendees to meet with peers, as well as OpenSolaris software engineers.

Toshiba will also be participating in the OpenSolaris Install Lounge to showcase the Toshiba Tecra M10 and Portégé R600 laptops that come with OpenSolaris software pre-installed. By playing the OpenSolaris Quiz Car game, attendees can answer trivia questions to win a prize and an entry into a drawing to win a Toshiba laptop.

OpenSolaris and Sun Cloud Party

The evening of June 1 is the OpenSolaris and Sun Cloud party, from 7-9 p.m. at the Moscone Center in Hall A. This event provides attendees with an opportunity to mingle with friends, connect with the OpenSolaris Community and network with the OpenSolaris and Sun Cloud teams – while enjoying food, drinks, games and great live music.

About CommunityOne

CommunityOne is a three-day event that will bring together developers, students and technologists to focus on open source innovation and implementation. The June 1 conference program is the result of a public call for papers and will offer more than 80 sessions led by contributors of dozens of open source and community projects, including Ajax, MySQL(TM), GlassFish(TM), JavaFX(TM), OpenOffice.org(TM), OpenSolaris, NetBeans(TM), Groovy, PHP, Apache, Android, Jython and Django. There is no charge to attend CommunityOne on Monday, June 1, with only a nominal fee to attend the deep dive technology sessions on June 2 and 3. All CommunityOne attendees will receive free access to the JavaOne(SM) conference general sessions June 2–4, and to the combined CommunityOne and JavaOne Pavilion June 1–4.

For more information about the CommunityOne conference, visit: http://developers.sun.com/events/communityone/2009/west/; view updates on Twitter http://twitter.com/CommunityOne/; or join the CommunityOne Facebook group at: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=13415456609.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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