Sun Tech Days is part of Sun Microsystems' commitment to foster open source technology, which they say 'enables developer communities to collaborate and innovate without barriers, and for enterprises to reduce costs'.

"We set the record for the most number of developers celebrating the upcoming Lunar New Year," said Gan Boon San, President, Asia South, Sun Microsystems. "This reinforces how as a community, we can make things happen and spur each other onto greater heights. In the year of the Ox, prosperity will come to those who are united and work hard."

In keeping with the Chinese New Year theme, the manager of the Sun Technology Evangelism, Reggie Hutcherson, dressed as the Warrior God to help declare the conference open.

An early keynote speaker was Sun's Senior Vice President of the Solaris Engineering group Jeff Jackson, one of the originators of the J2EE project, who manages the Solaris operating systems, clustering, database and storage software. Jackson is one of the brains behind Sun's Open Source program surrounding OpenSolaris, the Java Desktop and other Solaris technologies.