>>>>>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
>
>Jay;
>
>I was one of the first members of the local Java users group. I am still a Microsoft die hard. But if push comes to shove I will do what ever is necessary to support my family - even Java! :)



>
>A few years ago when version 1.2 came out it was anounced at our user group. The one problem though was at that time there was no browser that supported it. What a great promise! A new tool that will enable you to do all kinds of cool stuff but no way to test it. Test? Who tests anything? (ME!) How will the user enjoy your great new 1.2 code? No problem! Just wait for a browser to become compatible. I am waiting..... :)
>
>Tom

Yeah, it seems like Java has wandered around to find it's niche. My impression from the publicity that I read is that it's being adopted by a lot of the big iron guys to put a pretty face on mainframe apps. Financial services is big into it.

But, as for Java apps replacing Microsoft Office or doing cool things in browsers on the Internet (as distinguished from Intranet), I think we're still waiting for those 1 terraHertz processesors and universal 1 gig telephone lines. <g>

Jay