Registration Now Open for SpringOne Americas 2008
SAN MATEO, Calif.,—September 4, 2008—SpringSource, the company behind Spring,the de facto standard in enterprise Java, and a leading provider of infrastructure software,today announced that registration is open for SpringOne Americas 2008, its fourth annual technology conference being held at the Westin Diplomat in Hollywood, Florida, on December 1-4, 2008.
Having drawn thousands of developers, architects, CIOs and CTOs since its inception, SpringOne Americas, formerly known as The Spring Experience, is designed to support the Spring and SpringSource developer and technical thought leader community. SpringOne Americas provides an open forum to share insights on current development challenges and future directions around Spring, as well as to showcase the latest advancements in Spring technology.
Keynote sessions by Rod Johnson, the ‘creator and father of Spring,’ John Rymer, industry analyst from Forrester Research, and Adrian Colyer, the chief technology officer for SpringSource, will headline the conference. The four-day conference will also feature more than 70 sessions split into five parallel tracks that address all aspects of Spring, including web architecture, enterprise integration and large-scale production systems. Other sessions will be led by many of the core developers of the Spring Framework and Apache projects including Juergen Hoeller, Rob Harrop, Ben Alex, and Filip Hanik.
“With the enterprise-wide adoption of Spring as a mission-critical part of application infrastructure, technologists increasingly need to understand best practices, learn about the successes of Spring-based solutions, and gain insight into the roadmap for the technology,” said Rod Johnson, CEO of SpringSource. “SpringOne is the perfect venue to achieve these goals, get valuable education from the technology experts, and to network with other Spring professionals.”
The conference’s concentrated focus will be on in-depth technical presentations, customer testimonials, hands-on workshops and technical advice about Spring Portfolio projects and SpringSource products, including SpringSource Enterprise and the new SpringSource Application Platform. In addition, the conference will feature technical presentations on infrastructure technologies from the Apache Software Foundation, namely the Apache Tomcat Application Server.
As the company behind the conference, SpringSource is pleased to announce the participation of Accenture as a platinum sponsor for the event. SpringSource and Accenture collaborate on a number of client solutions that utilize open source offerings from SpringSource. In addition, SpringSource welcomes Terracotta, a leader in infrastructure software for enterprise Java high availability and scalability, as a gold sponsor.
SpringOne Registration
Register for SpringOne Americas 2008 online or sign up to be a Platinum, Gold, or Silver sponsor, by emailing sponsorships@springone.com. Register between now and Monday, September 29th and save $300 on registration fees.
About SpringOne
SpringOne Americas and SpringOne Europe are the two largest Spring events in the world. Sponsored by SpringSource, the company behind Spring, SpringOne conferences are focused on the use of Spring technologies in enterprise Java. For more information visit: www.springone.com.
About SpringSource
SpringSource created, developed and leads Spring, the de facto standard platform to build, run, and manage enterprise Java applications. SpringSource is also the leading company behind Apache Tomcat. SpringSource delivers an end-to-end platform that is designed from the ground up for complete portability and scalability for today’s data center and for next-generation virtualized, grid, and cloud deployments. Nearly half of the Global 2000, including many of the world’s largest financial institutions, retailers, manufacturers, healthcare, technology and public sector clients are SpringSource customers. For more information visit: www.springsource.com.