[Australasia-spring-interest] Upcoming Spring events

[Ben Alex]

Hello there!

In this email:

* Training summary
* This week's user group meetings
* Other February user group meetings
* SpringSource acquires Covalent Technologies

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TRAINING SUMMARY
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We still have places available at our upcoming Core Spring and Core
Hibernate training courses in the following cities:

CITY        COURSE          DATES           DETAILED INFORMATION
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Sydney      Core Spring     11/02 - 14/02   SOLD OUT
Melbourne   Core Spring     18/02 - 21/02   http://tinyurl.com/2df2h2
Wellington  Core Spring     26/02 - 29/02   http://tinyurl.com/2bur67
Auckland    Core Spring     03/03 - 06/03   http://tinyurl.com/2b3fg4
Singapore   Core Spring     11/03 - 14/03   http://tinyurl.com/yw6fn6
Brisbane    Core Spring     17/03 - 20/03   http://tinyurl.com/yrnsgk
Perth       Core Spring     25/03 - 28/03   http://tinyurl.com/yub54w
Sydney      Core Spring     31/03 - 03/04   http://tinyurl.com/35pbfo
Sydney      Core Hibernate  07/04 - 09/04   http://tinyurl.com/2pjxod

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THIS WEEK'S USER GROUP MEETINGS
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* WELLINGTON: On tonight from 5:15 pm. I'm already here in Wellington,
and looking forward to seeing you soon! More: http://tinyurl.com/26xeq3

* AUCKLAND: On tomorrow (Tuesday) night from 6:00 pm, although there are
no more places available. More: http://tinyurl.com/375f8d

* BRISBANE: We only have room for three more people at the Brisbane
Novotel from 5:30 pm on Wednesday, so don't delay registering! Our new
Regional Director of Australasia, Steve Morris, will also be coming
along to meet everyone. More: http://tinyurl.com/2m3xdb

* MELBOURNE: Thursday night's meeting at Karstens at CQ will feature
three presentations on web security, Flex 3 and BladeDS Spring
integrations. Our new Regional Director of Australasia, Steve Morris,
will also be coming along to meet Melbourne Spring users. More:
http://tinyurl.com/2gqgup

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OTHER FEBRUARY USER GROUP MEETINGS
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* SINGAPORE: Sorry, no more spaces are available. I'll see those of you
who secured a place on 18 February! More: http://tinyurl.com/2mgmot

* PERTH: The Perth Java Community is invited to join us for a breakfast
JUG meeting on 20 February. More: http://tinyurl.com/2wm7so

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SPRINGSOURCE ACQUIRES COVALENT TECHNOLOGIES
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On 29 January, SpringSource announced that it has acquired enterprise
open source leader Covalent Technologies. The acquisition brings
together two open source market leaders and addresses widespread demand
for a simplified application infrastructure based on the Spring
Portfolio and Apache projects such as the Apache Tomcat application
server. You can read more about the acquisition here:

  http://www.springsource.com/web/guest/covalent

We also have just announced the first Covalent and SpringSource Webinar,
"Tomcat and Spring: The Perfect Match". If you'd like to attend, please
register using the link above.

Best regards

Ben Alex
Principal Software Engineer
SpringSource - Delivering The World's Leading Enterprise Java Platform
T +61-2-8404-0150      W www.springsource.com
F +61-2-8404-0149    ABN 16 124 647 945


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