Greetings, Jeff Huber here from Sun Microsystems, Premier Sponsor for next week’s Silicon Prairie Social. At Sun, we help bring people together to share and to succeed. Innovation, Participation, and Collaboration lead to Opportunity for all of us.

From the very beginning, sharing has been a key ingredient in Sun’s identity. In fact, it’s firmly rooted in our vision that The Network is the Computer. The true power of the network is in sharing ideas and technologies to drive innovation and create new opportunities - both social and economic - around the world.

We believe that core technologies should be shared building blocks that are available to everyone to create, compete, and innovate. That’s why we share key technologies such as OpenSolaris, GlassFish, MySQL, OpenJDK, OpenOffice, and OpenSPARC, just to name a few.

At Sun, sharing takes many forms. Whether it’s taking advantage of a free Try and Buy program, Downloading Software, or joining a community and exchanging information, we offer customers a wealth of resources with one goal in mind - to help them to succeed.

Please stop by the Sun Microsystems table where we will be showcasing programs, communities, and technologies designed to help you:

• Launch your business FAST and at LOW COST with Sun’s Startup Essentials
• Gain ACCESS to developer forums, tools, and on-line training through the Sun Developer Network (SDN)
• Tap into the POWER of the GRID with Sun’s Network.com

Be sure to enter the raffle, as one lucky attendee will be taking home this 24.1-Inch LCD Flat Panel Monitor!

A big thank you to Tim Courtney and the team at XNet for the opportunity to participate in this outstanding event. See you all next Thursday, July 10!

Jeff Huber
Solution Architect
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
jeff.huber@sun.com