Sun Microsystems has announced details for Sun Tech Days in India. The event will be held for the second consecutive year in Hyderabad, at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre (HICC) from February 27 to February 29, 2008 with supporting sessions in Bangalore and Chennai.

Based on the theme of 'Open Opportunities', this year's event will cover technologies such as JavaFX, JRuby and other open source technologies in addition to Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE), GlassFish project, NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE), OpenJDK, Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME), OpenSolaris, SOA using OpenESB and Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS).

Speaking at the press conference, KP Unnikrishnan, director - Marketing, Alliances and Teleweb Sales, Sun Microsystems India said, "Our theme for this year's event - Open Opportunities, as the name suggests, is focused on open source projects and communities. As one of the strongest proponents and the largest contributors of open source software, Sun believes in the concept of sharing technologies so as to grow communities, increase participation and build new markets. The open source model offers liberties to every user and developer, which encourages collaborative innovation and this is what we wish to drive home with this year's event."

Elaborating further on the theme of Open Opportunities, Unnikrishnan said, " Our message to the developer community is clear - abundant opportunities are available at Sun Tech Days for them to develop their skills, share their knowledge and participate in communities changing the face of technology."

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