'India leading in adopting tech, software concepts'

India is leading in adoption of new technologies and software concepts, according to a top official of Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Addressing a press conference in connection with its annual conference Sun Tech Days 2006 here, Matt Thompson, director, Technology Outreach and Open Source Programs Office, Sun Microsystems, said that India remained one of the top three countries for company's future growth and would be investing more than ever before in the country.

He also said that Indian Java community was developing new concepts and technologies faster than the Chinese community though the Chinese government extended support to learn new technologies.

Sponsored by Oracle and SAP, Sun Microsystems's three-day conference, Sun Tech Days 2006, a developer forum for the Java community across the world, was kicked off today.

Stating that the conference was meant for 'education,' Laurie Tolson, vice president, Sun's Java Platforms Group, said that the conference would focus on Java Standard Edition, Java Enterprise Edition, Java Micro Edition as also other popular subjects like Open Source, Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture and emerging platforms like Open Solaris.

Over the last few years, Sun Tech Days event has grown into a real developer forum where professional developers and programmers look for new concepts and technologies to move to the next level.

Earlier, people used to attend this event to seek jobs. About 2500 people have enrolled for the Chennai event, which is part of the multiple country roll our programme.

Sun has set a goal to add one million professionals to its Developer Network Programme worldwide during this year. In China alone, it plans to add about 250,000 professionals.