What drives learning/adoption is jobs. When there are Flex jobs, there will be Flex coders taking those jobs. The metrics I used for Perl/Java/Flex are not perfect but I have found this method to be very accurate in the past to predicting trends in the market. Given Perl and Java are both incumbent programming languages, the odds are stacked against Flex which is really a programming model/platform rather than a language but I wanted to go up against the languages on an even basis to see where Flex stacks up. The results are encouraging: 1. How many hits are there on Google: Perl: 195MM Java: 551MM (Winner) Flex: 74MM 2. How many jobs have the keyword on Monster.com within 50 miles of Zip code 95110 ( San Jose) Perl: 360 Java: 442 (Winner) Flex: 28 3. How many searches on the keywords on Overture.com August 2006 Perl: 12,332 Java: 192,000 (Winner) Flex: 31,964 (Yes - we beat Perl!!!) 4. How many searches are returned on Google Blogsearch for the last month only: Perl: 531 Java: 450 Flex: 596 (Winner) 5. How many books on Amazon.com does a keyword search turn up? Perl: 13,758 Java: 38,657 Flex: 45, 894 (Winner) Of course, this is not very scientific given java also means coffee and there are books on Google on Golf Flex. To me, the number of books and blog mentions is really indicative of a trend just starting to rise. Cheers! D "Speaking only for myself" Site - http://www.nickull.net My Music - http://www.mix2r.com/ On 10-Oct-06, at 5:51 AM, Ray wrote:
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