>>>Hi Tom;
>>>
>>>>For every 9 VB developers there is one half a Delphi developer. That must hurt – to be one half a developer!
>>>
>>>Definitively anyone would not like to be this half :))
>>>
>>>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?
>>>
>>>CLAUDIO
>>>>
>>>>Oh yes: For every two VFP developers there is one Delphi developer. Now I feel better!
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>CLAUDIO
>>
>>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.
>>
>> 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

Wow, those are some odds!

Do you ever have the desire to try out the Java waters? (Of course, MS, even J++.Net is based on an out-dated version -- 1.1 that is rapidly being left behind in the Java world.)

Jay