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Father of Java visiting Hyderabad
By siliconindia staff writer
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Tuesday, 20 April 2004, 19:30 IST
HYDERABAD: With Java technology running across all types of computing devices, from computer chips to cell phones and some of the worlds largest computers, Sun Microsystems sees a huge opportunity for the Indian Java community and software developers to provide solutions and services in the emerging business of services on demand, reports Economic Times.
Out of four million software developers globally, the Java community has over three million Sun developers. Sun expects the number of Sun developers to cross four million in the couple of years.
Out of the six lakh developers in India, Sun developers constitute almost three lakh professionals. To provide an insight into Java technology and what it takes to stay ahead in the developer space, Sun Microsystems is bringing the father of Java technology and the original designer of Java programming, James Gosling, to Hyderabad for Sun Tech Days 2004, an annual event, on May 20 and 21.
Commenting on one of Suns biggest initiatives of the year, the companys marketing director, KP Unnikrishnan, said that Sun Tech Days 2004 will be the biggest developer seminar in India, with more than 3,000 developers expected to attend the event. This years theme is Turning Ideas Into Innovation.
Technology evangelists from Sun and global industry leaders would present cutting edge technologies like enterprise computing, open source development methodologies, mobility and wireless, security, next generation advances in Web services, developer tools and productivity, besides showcasing a host of applications and products from its partners.
What the developers could get to see are solutions that are driving mobile computing, security, web services, developer productivity, open source technology and more of Suns strategic partners and their roadmaps for successfully deploying exciting new products and technologies, he said.
Apart from Web services, gaming is one huge opportunity where the Indian developers can contribute to the application development and deployment, Unnikrishnan said. According to independent analysts projections, the number of Java powered hand sets shipped next year will exceed total number of PCs and by 2006, more than 1.1 billion phones will be capable of running on Java.