>I was very curious after reading this discussion and especially after reading this post. So I went to the DICE (Developer’s and Independent Contractor’s Exchange, www.dice.com) and did a quick job search. Here is the result:
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>Keyword Jobs found
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>C++ 39,525
>Java 11,920
>Visual Basic 6,958
>VB 4,289
>J++ 998
>FoxPro 457
>VFP 6
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>Seems like someone is using Java.
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>Rob
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>>I haven't worked with Java (other than Java script on my web site) and really have no interest in it one way or another.
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>>I can report on a very unscientific poll taken about Java. I attend the Software Forum meetings in Palo Alto almost every month. This is the largest group of software developers in Silicon Valley and I think it has the best speakers and is on the leading edge more than any other meetings I have attended. There were only 3 people in the audience of several hundred that had anything to do with Java. No one knew of any big projects with it. Contrast this with a few years ago when almost everyone was working with it or planned to work with it or their company was doing something with it. I was left with the feeling that Java will slowly go away. The last meeting had a world famous author (mostly articles in magazines) and venture capitalist. The speaker said that McNealy (Sun CEO) killed the language with his arrogance. There was a lot more but I think that gets the point accross. I would not describe the software forum members as being 100% pro-Microsoft.

If you want to see a big project in Java, go to the www.mcaffee.com site, and allow it to do a complete virus scan of your computer across the web, and also scan your computer (with your permission) check your installed software, and display a database of available updates. (same with Microsoft updater, and NetScape smartUpdate, those these are more specialized) All are in java, and are pretty slick too!