Also remember thought works business is selling services/billable
hours, not technology. From that perspective it probably makes sense
(at least for bleeding edge consulting/service businesses).

On Sep 4, 3:51 am, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote:
> What does popularity have to do with anything?
>
> This isn't a measure of popularity (i.e. "technologies that lots of people
> know about")
> It's a report on "technologies that ThoughtWorks thinks you should be aware
> of, and possibly act on"
>
> If everything in that report was well known, there wouldn't be any need for
> a radar in the first place.
>
> 2010/9/3 Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]>
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Jan Goyvaerts <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> >> Any idea why/how/... they consider Java as being end of life ?
>
> > I would take this report with a grain of salt. Call me cynical, but I'm
> > always a bit skeptical of reports issued by organizations that have a
> > financial interest in the content of said reports (Thoughtworks will
> > probably make more money if they can sell trainings on Java, Scala, Ruby,
> > etc... than if they only sell trainings on Java).
>
> > To me, the most objective measure of the popularity of a technology is to
> > search for it on the main job web sites.
>
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