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Hyderabad, Feb. 17 Sun Microsystems will hold the Indian leg of the 2008 edition of its premier global developer conference, Sun Tech Days in Hyderabad from February 27 to 29.

The annual event that brings together enthusiasts of open source technologies, now in its eighth year, has never been held in an Indian city for two years in a row.

One of the reasons for the decision is the response the event received last year. “The 2007 event held in Hyderabad was the largest Sun Tech Days in the world. Around ten thousand people participated,” Mr Naveen Asrani, Manager, Developer Relations, Asia South and Australasia, told newspersons while releasing the details of the event.

India has about 6.31-lakh-strong developer community, the largest number for the company worldwide, and about 40,000 new developers are getting added every quarter, according to Mr K.P. Unnikrishnan, Director, Marketing, Alliances and Teleweb sales, Sun Microsystems.

Themed ‘Open Opportunities’, this year’s event will also be much bigger in scale and will have a total of 16 tracks and 95 sessions. It will also have supporting sessions held in Bangalore and Chennai, and will cover technologies such as JavaFX, JRuby apart from Java EE, Java SE, Java ME, NetBeans, OpenJDK, GlassFish Project and other open source technologies.

To be held at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre (HICC), the event will have three keynotes, two more than last year, to be presented by Mr Rich Green, Executive Vice-President, Software, Sun Microsystems, Mr Ian Murdock, the man behind Debian Linux and presently with Sun as Chief OS Platform Strategist and Mr David Axmark, co-founder of MySQL Project and MySQLAB.

The event will be supported by Oracle, AMD, Intel, Eriksson, Nokia, CollabNet, Sybase, Accenture, Webex, Parasoft among others.

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