IMHO I see a lot more IBM Websphere openings than BEA, oh well, let's first pass SCWCD.
I'm not sure, it might be so. Or it could just be the current trend. BEA claims it has the lead in the marketplace. So does IBM.
By the way, anyone ideas about the jCert certificates as in acceptance and value ? (or am I going way off topic now? )
I've been looking at the jCert myself, but there are at least two problems with jCert. First, it is not as well-known in the industry as the Sun Certifications are, which means that you will rarely see it as a requirement in a job req. Second, although it's theoretically an industry-wide standard for certification, in practice IBM is the only vendor which fully supports it through the third level, though BEA
may support the 3rd level. So right now it's an IBM certification, kind of a combination of the SCEA and the new Sun J2EE certification.
On the plus side is that it has to be rare compared to the Sun certifications. This means that you may be able to present yourself as a rare commodity to the right customer. But you will have to do some selling.