>>Hi Tom;
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>>>For every 9 VB developers there is one half a Delphi developer. That must hurt – to be one half a developer!
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>>Definitively anyone would not like to be this half :))
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>>Based only in your felling and knowing that I dont want any accurate number. do you believe that in US's east coast has this same proportion?
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>>CLAUDIO
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>>>Oh yes: For every two VFP developers there is one Delphi developer. Now I feel better!
>>>
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>>CLAUDIO
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>The East Coast seems to have a wider and more diverse demand for programming languages. A lot of Silicon Valley stuff supports hardware or involves application development. NY and DC provide for a lot of business database development, and government apps -- database, modelling, statistics, AI.
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> Jay

Jay;

We had a lot of Java developers until April 17th of last year! :) .COM Bomb and all that.

In reality there is little development work available in Silicon Valley for programmers using Microsoft development tools compared to Java even today. I have not been to a job fair in a year and at that time the following was noted:

1. 1068 companies at the Santa Clara Convention Center advertising jobs for developers.
2. 2 of these jobs were for Microsoft products - 1 for VB and one for NT 4.0

The remainder were Java jobs.

Again I do not know what it is like today.

Tom