On Nov 2, 8:29 pm, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> wrote: > > We can claim that people going at conferences are more important than > others, but I fear we only do because ... they're us. We don't pay Apple > more than other people, so I think that those stats make Java developers > really not important in Apple's marketing plans. They don't make Java > developers particularly appealing to Oracle, too (given that, I think > that still a few weeks should be waited for before calling Oracle out of > the game). >
I would say that people going to conferences are doing so either of their own volition - either funding themselves or because they are freelance - or because they are working for a forward-looking company that wants to develop their staff. Those companies, in my opinion, are more likely to let developers use what is most productive (so Linux and OS X will be more in evidence). So by definition the Windows and less forward-looking Corporate footprint will always be under- represented. Until I returned to freelance work about three years ago I'd not been to a single external training or conference event for nearly five years. My company insisted on Windows and Oracle Developer. We had to put up with Windows but almost everybody used Eclipse... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
