[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: A Stakeholder's Response: XQuery APIs for Middle Tier
xDevX.com ran a non-scientific online poll a few weeks ago which asked: > Survey results released this week by tools vendor DataDirect > show more than half of developers use XQuery, even though the > spec is only a working draft. You're thinking: I didn't want to point that out at the time - in fact, no one at DataDirect did anything to promote this - to try to keep from causing the Heisenberg effect. We wanted to wait until the poll had been pushed off of the homepage page for a few days before commenting. Here are their results, visible at http://www.devx.com/DevX/Poll/27727/0/showResults/1 > I totally buy that. We implemented XQuery and it's incredibly useful. > 43% > Sounds reasonable, as we'll be using it soon, too. > 16% > That number is inflated. How about some data from an *impartial* source? > 11% > What's XQuery? > 30% > Total Votes: 302 The third answer isn't really orthogonal (i.e. it does not indicate if the respondent is using XQuery or not); a better question would asked how many see no value in XQuery. But even still their results point to over half of those polled said that they either are already using XQuery or planning to do so, which was a key finding of our own survey. The DevX survey was featured on their main homepage, and on all of their "Zone" homepages for .NET, Java, C++, Database, Open Source, Web Development, XML, VB, ASP/ASP.NET, Wireless, etc. - presumably their readership are not exclusively "XML developers". -- Sincerely, Tony Lavinio Stylus Studio Principal Software Architect http://www.stylusstudio.com/
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