Overlap is the key word here. If you notice, of the 52 listings for FoxPro, only the top 10 or so are actually looking for a FoxPro developer. The rest just mention FoxPro as an additional skill.

If you look closer at things like JavaScript,Perl,Unix,Linux etc. more often than not those skills or OS are usually mentioned in the same breath. Which very often says something about the agency or potential employer. For example, I would be wary of an add that was looking for an ASP.NET with C# developer with knowledge of Windows and the Internet. ??


>>Check dice.com and do a search on "FoxPro", then do a search on "C#".
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>>You will no longer have to wonder what you should be doing with your time off.
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>Since I love number games, I followed your instructions. Since they boast over 31375 entries, I thought it might be insightful to get a "numbered feeling", and added a few queries...
>Probably much overlap, no analysis of pay rates or contract work: but still some surprises for me.
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>Some searches (access, progress, com+) I didn't mark, since even on the first pages different subcategories could be identified - perhaps I was not stringent enough with the others.
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>0003 Interbase
>0003 prolog
>0010 postgresql
>0029 Gupta
>0036 javabeans
>0037 jscript
>0052 foxpro
>0066 delphi
>0085 MySql
>0094 python
>0098 php
>0099 fortran
>0109 dBase
>0117 ado.Net
>0154 odbc
>0206 vbscript
>0270 ado
>0330 jdbc
>0343 j++ (my biggest surprise !)
>0345 j#
>0354 vb.net
>0469 asp.net
>0554 cobol
>0682 c#
>0776 uml
>0966 jsp
>0939 javascript
>1153 Visual Basic
>1166 DB2
>1261 linux
>1422 perl
>1566 internet (no more hype ?)
>1653 sql-server
>1973 administrator
>1996 VB
>2016 architect
>2391 programmer
>2635 .net
>3002 c++
>3287 c
>3910 windows
>4064 .asp (something of a shock - a helpful one ?)
>4562 java
>4588 oracle
>5182 unix
>5187 Sql
>5518 database
>7015 analysis
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>but (perhaps unavoidable)
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>8549 marketing
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>if you find any other key words with high numbers, pls. add
>[english is not my native language, I usually don't look into job markets, so my vocabulary might be missing some important keywords ;-) ]
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>[snipped: a few lines on how those numbers change the reading order / ventures into new areas. I don't wanna start another flame. This is *data*]
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>But I *do* love numbers: Sometimes I can even refrain from over-analyzing.
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>One thing for certain: I won't go back to fortran, even if the market is twice as big.
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>my 0.01 EUR [less than normal ;-)]
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>thomas