Highlights of Sun Seminar on "Future of Java"

Organized by Edgeineers Club of Kolkata in association with Sun Microsystems a Sun Seminar on “Future of Java” was held on 26th of July 08 at St. Xaviers Auditorium, Kolkata. The speakers were Mr. Rajesh R (Evangelist, Sun Micro systems) and Mr. Anup Nautiyal (National Manager, Sales, Sun Micro systems).

As we were celebrating NIIT’s 500 days partnership with Sun so everyone in NIIT East was excited about the event. The main objective behind the event was to build a strong connect between students, academicia, industry and NIIT.

Though officially the first session was due to start at 3:30 p.m., students were in a queue since 2:30 p.m. itself. The response was an overwhelming one. The students were also given Sun Develop Network Program registration form and more than 350 students enrolled for the SDN membership.
During his whole interaction with the audience Mr. Rajesh talked about the open source technologies and platforms. He started his session by giving introduction about Sun Microsystems and its product portfolio.

He also discussed about the benefits of open source like inter operability, platform independence, security etc. Open source technologies provide flexibility of free sharing the content with source code. The participants thus can modify this code and redistribute them back into the community or other organizations.

Later he talked about Open Solaris OS and discussed some of the features like D Trace, Self Healing, ZFS (Zeta Byte File System), Solaris containers (limitless partitioning, keepings thousands of applications on one system) with the students. He discussed with the students the security features of Open Solaris and increase in performance.

The students were spell bound by the demonstration of futuristic technology and left the premises with a WOW feeling.
Edgeineers Club will be orgainizing such kind of events in future also.