NetBeans Day focus on SI developers

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):



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fyi -

If you are going to JavaONE or if you are simply interested in participating
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
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
and commercial).

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.

cheers.
charles