size of XQuery developer community

[Vyacheslav Sedov]

to count just XQuery developers - not so clear, eXist developer &
Marklogic developer differ from each other (compare mySQL, Oracle and
MS SQL - we don`t count this as common SQL developer

also - XQuery-centric application or Java-centric application (C# or
other dinosaur) in first case developer is respectable creator, in
second just foolish "coder" ("it should spread lotion  on skin" (с)
The Silence of the Lambs)

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:52 PM, David A. Lee<http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk> wrote:
> Its *got* to be more then the "100s"
>
> Just looking at marklogic.com they list 43 customers ... and those are the
> ones they publish.
> There must be more then 2 developers per customer.  The ML developer
> confrence was bigger then that.
> Plus of course the ML dev team itself.
>
> And thats just 1 company.
> Add to that Oracle, IBM and Microsoft XQuery implementations and the
> developers just to *write* those have got to exceed the "100s"
>
> Then there's all the uncountable folks using eXist, xmldb , Saxon etc.
> ( which must outweigh the paying customers by atleast 10x ...)
>
>
>
> David A. Lee
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> James Fuller wrote:
>>
>> partioning the question a little, I think there are 5 groups of
>> developers with respect to xquery:
>>
>> I) developers who have done no xquery and never heard about it
>>
>> II) developers who have done no xquery but heard about it
>>
>> III) developers who may briefly engaged with xquery, either as a
>> config/bug fix/hack/maintenance/research activity
>>
>> IV) developers who have spent some time doing some small projects with
>> xquery as a component
>>
>> V) developers who have spend a significant amount of their day coding in
>> xquery
>>
>> while its not possible to nail down numbers (all the usual caveats
>> apply) I would venture that of the above groups that that the last two
>> are limited to 100's - 1000's ... its quite possible that there may be
>> a magnitude greater number of developers in the III) group and maybe
>> even higher, but I have no feel for this.
>>
>> I base these estimations on the following purely qualitative measures:
>>
>> * number of recruiters calling me (I fall in the V. group) and them
>> consistently repeating the dearth of xquery talent
>>
>> * number of people interacting with technologies I am involved with
>> e.g. eXist XML Database and most of the projects I am involved with
>> have some xquery component
>>
>> * xml technology conferences which number in the low hundreds, rather
>> then thousands, of which xquery is a topic which is a subset
>>
>> It is clear to me that XQuery is experiencing higher adoption rates
>> and getting used more (exp in context of XML databases).
>>
>> hth, Jim  Fuller
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