Sun Microsystems and the NetBeans Community Kick Off World Tour and Announce NetBeans Innovators Grant Winners
Sun Sponsored Challenge Program Recognizes Open Source Technology
Innovation With 13 Winners Sharing $127,500 Prize
SAO PAULO, Brazil--(Business Wire)--
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced the winners
of the NetBeans(TM) Innovators Grant contest designed to fuel
innovation around the NetBeans open source project. The contest was
part of Sun's Open Source Community Innovation Awards Program, a
multi-year program running across several open source communities with
a $1 million total prize.
In related news, the NetBeans Community is kicking off its World
Tour with its first stop, Sao Paulo, Brazil. The NetBeans World Tour
events are hosted together with local Sun Tech Days.
"In support of Sun's commitment to free and open source software,
we developed the Open Source Community Innovation Awards Program to
foster innovation and recognize the most interesting initiatives
within the communities worldwide," said Jiri Kovalsky, technical
community manager at Sun. "The winners chosen demonstrated
extraordinary creativity and collaboration, and their work has fuelled
significant growth within the NetBeans community."
"It has been a wonderful opportunity to bring something alive that
we believe in," said Anuradha Gunasekara, creator of Cube'n NetBeans
plug-in as he reflects upon the contest. "Taking part in the project
and winning the NetBeans Innovators Grant project was an opportunity
that comes along once in a lifetime!"
Hong Wei Deng, author of Scala Support project agrees, "I never
imagined that I would have such an impact on an open-source project
before I started working with NetBeans. Now, I know that a vision of
something can become reality. I am honoured to have had such strong
support - from the NetBeans Community and the NetBeans Dream Team -
all helping me to successfully bring my project to completion. Dreams
do come true."
The NetBeans Innovators Grant winners include the following:
-- Anuradha Gunasekara for Cube'n - NetBeans integration with
issue tracking systems
-- Hong Wei Deng for Scala Support - full featured Scala
development support in NetBeans
-- Bill Snyder for CashForward - personal cash-flow system built
on top of the NetBeans Platform
-- Alessandro Nascimento Dourado for NB Project - projects
management tool based on the NetBeans Platform
-- and 9 additional projects
To hear podcast sessions with gold award winners Anuradha
Gunasekara (Cube'n), Hong Wei Deng (Scala Support) and read interviews
with Silver Award winners, Laurent Foret (IvyBeans) and Alexandre
Soumbatov (PL/SQL Editor) visit Sun news.
Sun is celebrating the growth of the open source community
throughout the month of September. In addition to NetBeans, Sun's open
source portfolio of products includes GlassFish(TM), OpenSolarisTM),
OpenOffice.org(TM), OpenJDK(TM), MySQL(TM), Open Storage, PostgreSQL
and OpenSPARC(TM). For more on Sun's open source offerings.
About NetBeans
A free, open-source Integrated Development Environment for
software developers. You get all the tools you need to create
professional desktop, enterprise, web, and mobile applications with
the Java language, C/C++, and Ruby. NetBeans IDE is easy to install
and use straight out of the box and runs on many platforms including
Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global
marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network Is The
Computer"(TM) -- Sun drives network participation through shared
innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can
be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.
Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Java, OpenSolaris, OpenJDK,
NetBeans, OpenOffice.org, MySQL, OpenSPARC and "The Network Is The
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