Sun Tech Days - London, UK (Day 1)

Highlights & Lowlights

http://www.sun.com
There are now
3M java developers - Sun is aiming for 10M
300M java mobiles
350M java cards

Radio Barcodes are now part of the network
Gilette estimates it lost $30B because shops were out of stock of its products

Geeks don't play golf ! A show of suggested that only 2 out of 1000 java geeks played golf

New Sun hardware
E2400-12 way threads to
E25000-72 way threads

V20z for $2800
Runs Redhat, Solaris & SuSe !

Sun+Sybase save you $1M per terrabyte of data
Sun+Oracle give you 234% ROI over MS Exchange

Java Enterprise System (JES) releases will all be syncronised and released together once per quarter

JES pricing is $100/employee/year

Solaris 10 is FREE for non-commercial use

Innovation matters

Open Source == Innovation

www.java.net

Electronic Arts use Java for mobile games
They have had 17.6M visitors playing for 8.2B minutes
thats 70min/user/day

SONY Everquest online game makes $30M/month

www.sun.com/developers

www.autoidcenter.org


Lowlights

Venue (again!)
Food (again!)
Marketing spin
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