The Big Website Merge: java.sun.com, developers.sun.com, BigAdmin, and OTN

[Sebastiano Cobianco]

hi all,

please find enclosed hereafter an email i received from Oracle
community manager

ciao
Sebastiano

"You may have noted the reference to a planned Website integration in
the FAQ that was published just at Sun/Oracle change-in-control. After
months of work and planning by some of the same people who have run
these sites for years, this project is at hand: On July 19,
developers.sun.com, java.sun.com, BigAdmin, and Oracle Technology
Network will become one (under oracle.com/technetwork). Because of
your importance in the community, you are the first people to be
notified about this news, and we encourage you to share it with your
members/peers.

We have tried to anticipate major questions in the new FAQ published
here. But before you get that far, I want to assure you of some very
important things in relation to java.sun.com:

- All non-obsolete content will be migrated (yes, a clean-up was
done), and when possible, original information architecture will be
preserved.
- Although URLs will change, we will implement 1:1 redirects for the
most popular/important content from the migrated sites - including the
Java APIs. Your bookmarks won't break.
- Java developers will continue to have their own "place" in the
framework (at oracle.com/technetwork/java), just as they did under
java.sun.com, and the content there will continue to be Technology-
focused (not product-focused).
- Ultimately, I think you'll find the approach similar to that of
developers.sun.com.

I encourage you to read the FAQ for more information, and if you have
comments or feedback, to provide it via this list or directly to me.

We are going to do everything we can to make this integration as
seamless as possible, but the reality is that this project is large
and complex; so you may encounter some challenges on the first day.
However we’ll make incremental improvements quickly, and we need your
help and feedback to do that."