Re: NetBeans Day focus on SI developers

comments below


Charles Ditzel wrote:

> Let me know if this is okay....
>
> I will be sending the following to the System Integrator groups within
> Sun for distribution to SI developers - any comments.  Last I heard the
> NetBeans user base had tripled in the past year - is that correct (that's
> my only outstanding issue with the message below):
>
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> fyi -
>
> If you are going to JavaONE or if you are simply interested in 
> participating


JavaOne (2 places)

> in this event please note that on Sunday, June 26th (the day before 
> JavONE
> begins) there is an event at the Argent Hotel that is free and centers
> around NetBeans.  NetBeans day starts at 11:00 am and has two tracks


NetBeans Software Day

> on NetBeans open source software and NetBeans derived software.
>
> Here is the info :
>    http://www.netbeans.org/community/articles/javaone/2005/nb-day.html
>
> A number of key people will be in attendance James Gosling, Graham 
> Hamilton,
> Robert Brewin, Tim Bray, Bill Shannon, Tim Lindholm and of course a 
> number of
> developers from the NetBeans team to name a few.
>
> With the release of the open source IDE, NetBeans IDE 4.1, and the rich
> client platform, NetBeans Platform 4.1 - developers now have a 
> feature-rich
> IDE and platform with great out-of-the-box features.  If you are 
> working on
> J2EE, mobile apps, rich clients, web apps - NetBeans IDE 4.1 has all this
> built into it. It has full support for J2SE 5.0 (and of course 1.4.2), 
> full
> J2EE 1.3/1.4 support, a great Java Profiler, a VisualGC (garbage 
> collection)
> viewer, a GUI builder, JUnit, a visual Mobile app developer module, 
> support for
> web services, web apps, EJBs and more.  There is now also support BEA 
> WebLogic,
> IBM Websphere, JBOSS, Tomcat and Sun App Server. Due to the 
> significant numbers
> of Eclipse developers moving to the NetBeans IDE we also have an 
> Eclipse Importer
> module. NetBeans also supports a wealth of third party modules (both 
> open source


WebSphere
JBoss

> and commercial).


I think 'a wealth' is way overstating things


>
> NetBeans has gained significant following - growing 38% last year - 
> before
> the release of 4.0 and 4.1.  Today we are seeing wide acceptance and 
> use of
> NetBeans software and a tripling of the user base in the past year.
>
> As developers we know you value quality software environments and 
> sophisticated
> debugging, profiling and development toolsets.  We welcome you to 
> register
> and attend NetBeans Day.


NetBeans Software Day

>
> cheers.
> charles
>