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From 1st September 10, Sun Certification titles will be changed to Oracle Certification

Tahir Akram — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:06:55 +0000

Just came to know from Oracle website that they have completely integrated Sun certifications with Oracle certification program. The title of certification has been changed. Now Sun Certified Java Programmer will be know as Oracle Certified Professional, Java Programmer.
From Oracle website:

Effective September 1, 2010, all Java, Oracle Solaris, MySQL, Open Office and Oracle Solaris Cluster certifications have been re-published and rebranded under the Oracle Certification Program. This change will not impact any of the exam objectives and with Oracle’s firm commitment to the growth of the program, these credentials will continue to be some of the highest recognized achievements in the industry.

Java certification voucher in $40 till 31st March 2010 for students

Tahir Akram — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:14:10 +0000

From a recent announcement from Oracle under Sun Academic Initiative program (SAI). Now students can get Java certification voucher in $40 till 31st March 2010. This is an excellent opportunity for students. After this date they will give 40% discount on the actual price of the exam fee.

Sun CEO’s internal memo to employees, before his resignation

Tahir Akram — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:07:29 +0000

Today I found that Jonathan Schwartz has tweeted about his resignation as Sun CEO. Due to the new control to Oracle. Schwartz sent following memo to his employees. Jonathan is an avid blogger used to blog on blogs.sun.com/jonathan.

He also tweeted about his last blog post on Sun.com, saying “Where Life Takes Me Next“.

Read the memo on AllThingsDigital.

Sun.com is dead now

Tahir Akram — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:35:29 +0000

Just found that sun.com is now redirecting to oracle.com. Some days back I visited Sun’s original website. But it didn’t took long by Oracle to make it red. Well I am a regular visitor of Sun forums. And with this change, I am trying to adjust myself with this transition. As I am having some issue in finding contents.

After some browsing Oracle’s website I found they were some thing to say to Java developers community about continuing Sun Developer Network.

Sun.com now redirects to Oracle.com

FAQs for Sun Java developer community:

What will happen to Sun Developer Network, java.sun.com, and BigAdmin?

For the near future, all these sites will remain in their current form. We know that these resources are important, so you can continue to access them just as you always have at the same URLs and bookmarks. At some time, we foresee an integration of these sites into a newly redesigned and re-architected Oracle Technology Network, and we welcome your feedback about this process. We will make sure that any changes are communicated well in advance so that you will continue to have access to the tools and resources that you need.

And there are some other promises too about continuing Sun things.

I also found a Sun blogger saying good bye to blog.sun.com. Due to some Oracle policies that they can host only those blogs that targets to their products only not personal topics. You can read that blog post here.

Oracles message to Sun customers and challenges IBM

Tahir Akram — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:49:21 +0000

Just found on Oracle website that they have placed a message for Sun customers about their objectives and their focus on Solaris and SPARC. And more interestingly you can find Larry Elison (CEO of Oracle) challenging IBM to compete in hardware business. A marketing tactic.

Picture reference: oracle.com/features/suncustomers.html

SCJP Plus Beta Certification exam delayed

Tahir Akram — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:59:23 +0000

When I came to know that Sun is giving away the opportunity to sign up for newly launched SCJP i.e. Sun Java Programmer Plus certification. I registered for it. According to them Selected candidates will be given the opportunity to appear in beta test for free. But still they have this announcement on their website.

And just recently I got an email from Sun that hey have delayed this certification.

Dear Tahir,

Thank you for your interest in the Sun Java Programmer Plus Certification – Sun’s first performance based Java Certification exam.

We wanted to inform you that the full beta for the new Sun Java Programmer Plus Certification has been delayed to later in this year based on the results from initial beta testing and to align more closely with the upcoming release of JDK 7. We will get back in touch with you as soon as we have revised dates for the full beta test.

If you have any questions or feedback, please send a message to sunlearninglink@sun.com

Thank you,

Sun Microsystems

I don’t know why they suppress SCJP6 and 5 exam. I think many people (me too) have purchased SCJP 5 voucher and preparing for it. When I hear this news I was getting afraid that might be SCJP 5 got expired. Thank God its not. I found similar discussion on I found on CodeRanch forum when I was searching this announcement on Internet.

Oracle has acquired SUN Microsystems. So whats the impact?

Tahir Akram — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:39:15 +0000

On 20th April Oracle has eaten up another company. SUN Microsystems which was dangling around in the corridors of IBM, now at last got settled with Oracle on price of approximately $7.4 Billion in equity value or $9.50 per share in cash. Both companies have been collaborating in Java platform and have strategic relationships. Oracle has built up its faces specification ADF Faces which is based on Java Server Faces. Oracle also has JDeveloper IDE for Java in its stack. But after acquiring SUN, Oracle happens to add an operating system (Solaris) with a wide range of server systems (Spark) in its stack.

I am managing here the list of software products by both Oracle and SUN Microsystems. The list is not complete, will update if I found more information to add.

	Oracle	SUN Micosystems
IDE	JDeveloper	NetBeans
JVM	JRocket	SUN JDK
Application Server	BEA Weblogic	Glassfish
SOA	Oracle SOA Suite	Open ESB
Database	Oracle DB	MySQL
Single Sign-on	Oracle SSO	OpenSSO
Portal	BEA Portal Server	SUN Portal Server
Directory Services	Oracle Internet Directory	Open DS

Now lets see how Oracle merge all SUN products into its products. There are certain question which arise with this acquisition;

What will be the future of MySQL?
What happen to other open source initiatives by SUN, like OpenOffice etc?
What will be the status of community initiative, JCP (Java Community Process)?
How Java developers and other open source circles take this acquisition?

Well the list can be goes on. But I think Oracle will regard the open source projects of SUN and will keep supporting the community working behind these projects. Being the biggest in proprietary database market and now the biggest in open source too, Oracle will support Java because of its middleware. There are good roads ahead. Resources: