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[News] MS Visual Basic Suddenly Drops 35%, Java (GPL) Flourishes

Developers Embrace Java, Drop Visual Basic 

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| Use of Visual Basic has dropped 35% since the spring, says a
| poll of more than 430 North American developers done by research
| company Evans Data.
| 
| [...]
| 
| Developers have abandoned Microsoft's Visual Basic in droves
| during the last six months, and they're using Java more than any
| other development language, according to a recently published
| survey. 
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http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196600515

Recent research:

Study: Developers Favor Linux

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| "Regardless of what kind of developer you are, you're still trying to
| make a living, and target the operating system that?s controlling the
| market."
| 
| However, in the most recent survey, the developers' forecast of their
| target platform has changed. For the first time, these developers said
| that in the next 12 to 18 months they expect to be developing more Linux
| apps than Windows apps. 
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3645766

Remember Steve's Ballmer "Developers, Developers, Developers"? Microsoft is
losing the key to acquiring good software.


How many Microsofties does it take to implement the Off menu?

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| Every piece of evidence I've heard from developers inside Microsoft
| supports my theory that the company has become completely tangled up in
| bureaucracy, layers of management, meetings ad infinitum, and
| overstaffing. The only way Microsoft has managed to hire so many people
| has been by lowering their hiring standards significantly...
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http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/11/24.html


TIOBE Programming Community Index for November 2006

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| Java          20.400%  
| C     17.198%         
| C++   11.055%         
| (Visual) Basic        9.470%  
| PHP   9.209%  
| Perl  6.228%  
| Python        3.641%  
| C#    3.023%  
| JavaScript    2.310%  
| Delphi        2.252%  
| SAS   2.210%  
| Ruby  1.717%  
| PL/SQL        1.223%  
| D     0.684%  
| ABAP  0.637%  
| Lisp/Scheme   0.586% 
| COBOL         0.564%  
| Ada   0.546%  
| Pascal        0.516%  
| Visual FoxPro         0.431% 
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http://www.tiobe.com/index.htm?tiobe_index

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