Anyone, who has been to LPV1, 2 & 3 knows that Sun has been a big supporter of our event and the tech community here. By choosing to launch their national start-up essentials program in Vancouver over other Canadian tech hubs on January 25th shows that they recognize things are heating up in our city.

Here's what Sun had to say about Vancouver in their press release:

Vancouver was selected because of the vitality and diversity of its local startup community spanning new media, gaming, Internet, networking, wireless, biotech and cleantech.

 

'Launch Party' is Vancouver's preeminent event for helping bring together the local technology community in a forum where new companies can introduce their products and network with their peers. Launch Party was co-founded by Dimitri Sirota, Maura Rodgers and Dan Robinson in 2007. "

Several Sun execs flew in to mingle with the crowd last Friday and talk about their new program, which I have read gives big discounts on hardware to start-ups, who have been in business for less than 4 years and have fewer than 150 employees. Start-ups have to apply and be approved to get into the program to receive the discounts.

Tried SSE? Let us know what you think.