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.
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.
Its been a year since I purchased the voucher for SCJP 5.0. But I cant concentrate to have time to prepare it. From last night I have taken the oath to finally make it done. I have started with the book SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 5 Study Guide (Exam 310-055) by Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates.
A remarkable thing is I purchased the free retake voucher which is going to expire on June 2010. But I still didnt make even a single attempt. Ok thats all right. I am going to do it. I hope to appear for the successful first attempt in good marks.
I am not using any IDE for coding practice. I am using Notepad++ editor and command line Javac compilation. I want to get maximum of language fundamentals and want to think out of code completion feature.
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
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.
Sun Microsystems has unleashed Java Store at store.java.com. The purpose of this store is to give opportunities to developers to make money by showcasing their Java applications. Which they care about and develop in their own time. Currently store is in beta and available for US residents only.
Sun chief executive Jonathan Schwartz and Java creator James Gosling introduced the concept at the JavaOne conference.
“The objective is very simple: to give Java developers access to a billion consumers,” said Schwartz. “It solves the problem of how you get access to every customer in the world.”
Currently Sun is looking feedback on payment process. This store will be a great oppertunity to give financial benefits to developers and return for their efforts in developing Java apps.
SUN Forums are ultimate source to get help about programming problems and support about Java platform. Its the largest community driven by Java developers. If you are a Java developer then you must have used these forums. You guys will be aware of Duke dollar. You assign duke dollars to your topic (to attract others to get them) and then you credited these dollars to the person who replied correctly. I have seen many forum members with the handsome amount of duke dollars. Sun should promote these duke dollar rich people as valuable professionals. Though Sun has a page on Duke star featured developer, but I didn’t see any other developer got placed over there.
Well as compare to Microsoft, they have a full fledged program known as Microsoft Most Valuable Professional which is for those volunteers who contribute in communities and helped people with their technical expertise. Microsoft used to held summits for these MVPs and send them to various technology events and invites them on tech sessions at PDCs. I am not going to initiate any religious debate but its just a thought to share with you people that I appreciate the benefits and recognition given to MVPs by Microsoft. They have very strong branding in it. Sun should start such community initiative to get more people motivated to contribute on online forums. It will really an edge for Java developers. Please share your comments, what you think about it?
About Java Duke Dollars The Duke Dollars program is Sun’s way of thanking our developers who actively participate in the forums and help facilitate the exchange of technical knowledge in the community. http://developers.sun.com/forums/dukedollars.html
About Microsoft’s MVP Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) are exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who are awarded for voluntarily sharing their high quality, real world expertise in offline and online technical communities. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
SUN Microsystems has launched again the free retake offer for certification exams. SUN announced this deal last year too. And those people who missed this opportunity last year, this time they can grab this deal. Before registering for certification, SUN suggest to complete a assessment test available here.
This offer is valid in all countries where Sun certification is sold, except Brazil, India and Japan. You must purchase a Sun Certification Exam by June 19, 2009. You must specify Priority Code WW39CX1 at the time of purchase. Voucher prices can be found on Prometric.
Read more about this retake offer on SUN website.
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;
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:
Wow! A hot news I came across here and here today. Sun is going to acquire the open source icon MySQL. It can be a big leap for open source community as SUN is also providing a big platform independent language and now it also will have most popular open source database too.Will this have any impact in the Java development environment?
What will be the status of JavaDB project, will it be merged with MySQL db?
This is a big game plan by SUN as it going to cover a big open source developer base using MySQL.
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