__/ [ BearItAll ] on Wednesday 20 December 2006 09:01 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> IBM and Business Partners Realize Significant Growth on the Mainframe and
>> Linux
>>
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>> | IBM recently reported a 30 percent year-to-year growth of mainframe
>> | customers running Linux and this surge is giving IBM's channel
>> | partners the opportunity to capitalize on the mainframe's
>> | continued growth.
>> |
>> | This increase in Linux application development for the mainframe
>> | is being driven by a number of factors, including the overwhelming
>> | acceptance of partitioned Linux virtual servers -- and the
>> | associated great price and performance -- which is driving new
>> | workloads on System z.
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>> http://ca.us.biz.yahoo.com/iw/061219/0196578.html
>>
>>
>
> That is good news, we already knew the Linux server market was growing but
> I wasn't expecting it's take up on the mainframes to be quite to fast.
Just going through IBM's news you find that they do a lot of SOA in all sorts
of places. Linux seems to be a key ingredient. UNIX gets a bit neglected, I
think, in terms of further development.
>> 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
>>
>
> I had a look at the newer version of Eclipse over the last couple of days
> for a java project. What an excellent platform it has become, I've said in
> here before that I am not very keen on programming IDEs, but I will stay
> with Eclipse for a while because, and I don't mean this to be insulting to
> IDE vendors, but for the first time in my programming years Eclipse is the
> first IDE that seems to have been written with the programmer in mind.
>
> For those new to programming or to IDEs don't expect to download/install it
> and know without the help of the tutorials what you do next, it isn't an
> IDE that leads you by the hand, it is much more flexible than that so treat
> it with respect and learn how to use it properly.
>
>
>>
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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
>
> The big shame about that list really is how low Ruby is. Ruby as a starter
> or scripting language is very easy for new users to learn. It would be nice
> to see it used as an Open Office and Star Office scripting tool.
I think that Ruby (on Rails at least) lacks marketing, or even broad
'fanboyism'. I first stumbled upon it back in 2003 when I wanted to convert
E-mails to open form/ats such as X/HTML. Ruby on Rails is very new and it
could probably replace PHP(/MySQL) if only more people knew about it.
Someone whom I met at a FSFE meeting last year raved about how it given
excellent abstraction to storage (database). The video demo (I believe
there's just one that takes people's breath away) proves all of this. I
currently rely on one Internet service which is Open Source and implemented
in Rails and it's rock-steady yet simplistic.
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