Hi Mr. Clark,

You are right, the search field uses a boolean or by default. Thanks for the
heads up.

"web and asp" 18
"web and perl" 15

Even if ASP is the most popular here, I doubt that my polytechnic is being
very thrifty by purchasing of Visual Studio licenses for hundreds of
students at their partial (or full) expense.

Koh Wei Jie

On 10/24/07, Michael Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  WJ Koh wrote:
>
> Hi Mr. Clark,
>
> Thanks for the idea. I did some more searches on Monster.com.sg:
>
> "web java": 434
> "web asp": 341
> "web perl" 385
> "web php" 331
> "web python" 328
> "web ruby" 326
>
>
> This looks like it is "web or ..." as just "web" results in 325.
>
> They would logically have to be a subset of this if you wanted 'and'.
>
> So I don't think you can use these particular results.
>
> You would have to go back and search for "web and java" (their search
> engine handles 'and' keyword). e.g.
>
> java   180
> web   325
> "web and java"    70
> "web and asp"    18
> "web and php"    8
>
>
> This is very interesting...
>
> Thanks!
>
> Koh Wei Jie
>
> On 10/24/07, Michael Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Wei Jie,
> >
> > The best way to find this out I believe is by looking at the job market
> > / job listings. This method is used often by analysts to gauge how prevalent
> > a particular platform is in the market - it makes sense that the more
> > prevalent technology has more job openings.
> >
> > Here is an example of some searches on monster.com.sg:
> >
> > java   180
> > .net    90
> > perl 76
> > c#   66
> > asp    35
> > php   15
> > ruby    4
> >
> > Java at the top matches I have observed here in Singapore while doing
> > recruiting and also when looking at what technologies are being used to
> > develop enterprise web apps by the bigger developers (i.e. banks,
> > telcos, MNCs). Although these stats are not web app specific, it gives you a
> > relative idea.
> >
> > ~mc
> >
> >
> > WJ Koh wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > My polytechnic offers a module in its IT course which teaches
> > server-side web programming in ASP.NET in VB. I am puzzled at the
> > rationale behind this, because this  means that a ton of money will be spent
> > on Visual Studio when Perl is perfectly fine for this purpose. I am under
> > the impression that Perl is the most widely-used CGI language, but it is
> > possible that my school uses ASP.NET because it's more widely-used in
> > Singapore.
> >
> > Is it true that the a majority of the industry in Singapore uses ASP.NETthe 
> > most for web apps?
> >
> > Thanks guys.
> >
> > Koh Wei Jie
> >
> >
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