After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> Can Java become an important Linux language?
> Developers Embrace Java, Drop Visual Basic
> Study: Developers Favor Linux
>
> http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3645766
This is interesting from that link:
Linux Desktop
The developer's survey found at least one additional unusual
data point.
Surprising no one, these developers with Linux chops report that
their top two development choices are Web-based interfaces and rich
client applications. This was expected because these types of apps
have such wide usage.
The No. 3 choice, however, falls under the category of 'emerging
market': Linux desktop apps. (Perhaps oddly, desktop apps were a
more popular development choice than database apps, a
traditionally strong area for open source.)
The enthusiasm for desktop apps might be seen as an anomaly: while
Linux is strong in the server market, its penetration in the desktop
market continues to be very modest.
Indeed, the developers' enthusiasm for desktop apps 'is a
slightly surprising finding,' Andrews says.
The explanation: 'We see more of that in geographies other than
North America,' he says. 'We see more traction, for
instance, in Europe and in the Asia Pacific region around the [open
source] desktop.'
Cost, he notes, is a very big factor in some of these less affluent
markets. Moreover, 'The lineage factor, the Microsoft and
Windows heritage, isn't there.'
So, North-American == Wintard?
Anyway, it's looking promising for GNU/Linux and open-source. Not a
takeover, but some actual competition for the Redmond Borg, the Vole.
Even, as one sig put it, if you are still being MICROattacked, from many
angles, in a SOFT manner.
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Where do you think you're going today?
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