Is Microsoft losing the Alpha Geeks?
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| At this conference, the general feeling was that a migration of Alpha
| Geeks had already started. Just as Alpha Geeks forced to developu
| sing Waterfall migrated to more agile shops, these folks feel thes
| ame kind of migration is happening around Web Development.
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http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IsMicrosoftLosingTheAlphaGeeks.aspx
Related:
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.
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| [...]
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| 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
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."
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| 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
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
Where Open Source Developers Shine
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| The ability to respond to changing technologies and the changing needs
| of the user community amazingly quickly and the rapid pace of
| development simply has not and probably cannot be matched by
| the huge organizations that dominate the proprietary software
| world.
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http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/03/where_open_source_developers_s.html?CMP=OTC-0O724Z062301&ATT=Where+Open+Source+Developers+Shine
http://tinyurl.com/2lweap
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