Neil Young Takes Center Stage at JavaOne Keynote in San Francisco - Just Announced!

At this year's JavaOne, music legend and pioneer Neil Young will join Sun Microsystems' executives during the Opening Keynote session on May 6 at Moscone Center in San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO (Business Wire EON) May 2, 2008 -- Neil Young and Sun will make an announcement during the event, and provide a special demonstration of a new multi-media music project. Come hear and see what Java technology means to Neil Young.

About 15,000 people are expected to attend this year's JavaOne conference from May 6-9, and thousands will join Sun Microsystems for the second annual CommunityOne event (a free event) the day prior -- on May 5. JavaOne and CommunityOne are among the biggest conferences in the world for free and open-source software, attracting developers from across the globe. The Java platform has attracted more than 6 million software developers worldwide, and powers more than 5.5 billion devices including mobile phones, smart cards, Blu-ray players, set-top boxes, PCs, car navigation systems and more.

Media must register in advance to attend JavaOne and the opening keynote. To register, please visit: http://www.cplan.com/javaone2008/press_analyst_registration/

Sun Microsystems is the largest business contributor to the open source community.

More details and logistics on the opening keynote are below.

-- Location: Moscone Center, San Francisco

-- Day/Time: Tuesday, May 6; 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

-- Who: Rich Green (EVP, Software, Sun Microsystems) will be joined by

several special guests, including Neil Young and Sun Microsystems

CEO Jonathan Schwartz

-- Following the keynote, Jonathan Schwartz and Rich Green will

participate in a post-keynote media and analyst Q&A (Moscone

Center, Room 123; starts around 10:30 a.m.)

-- Webcast: The keynote session with Neil Young will be available live

at: www.sun.com/javaone

-- The general public can register to attend JavaOne at this same

site.

-- Photos: Photos will be available to download following the keynote

in the JavaOne press kit:

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/presskits/javaone2008

-- To view blogs at JavaOne BlogCentral, please go to:

http://sun.com/presskits/javaone2008/blogs.jsp