By Suzanna Kerridge, 30 June 1998 16:20
NEWS Sun Microsystems' Java certification programme has been met with scorn by industry observers. Bill Richardson, vice president of Sun Educational Services, claims only 35 per cent of developers have passed the Java certification exam, despite the company's boast that it is an easy language to use. Gary Barnett, analyst at Ovum, said: "I'm not surprised only a small number of people have taken the test. I'd be surprised if there are large numbers flocking in droves to take it." Barnett's second criticism centred on Sun's claim that there are 200,000 Java developers in the world - the basis of its 35 per cent statistic. "No-one is even doing proper Java right now. A lot of developers are just playing around with it, so it is unfair to refer to them as unqualified developers anyway," he said. In the long-term he said a certification programme may be useful once the language is mature, but until then, it's "just a lot of noise."
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