size of XQuery developer community

[Daniela Florescu]

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>> How did other languages/communities solve this kind of growing pain ?
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>> Any suggestions ?
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> lots of money

Hmm, Sure. We'd love that, thanks ! :-)

But how ?
( This was the subtitle of my original question.....:-)

Without a large XQuery developer community, none of the existing Xquery
engines/databases will make serious money with it (and when I saw  
none, I really
believe it...).

[[ The native XML database vendors can disagree with me as much as they
want, only they know their financials, and how much money they spend  
for each sale they
  make -- at least for the moment-- and this will probably continue as  
long as XQuery
  is not a mainstream data processing language.....

And if nobody is making any money, at the end of the game, there is a  
clear indication
that XQuery doesn't provide enough value, alas -- value to the  
customer has to translate
somehow to value to the vendors. ]]

I still believe this is **not** true, and XQuery has tremendous  
potential for adding
value to customers, but the proof isn't there yet, and the path isn't  
clear either.

There has to be a larger XQuery pool of expertise if we want to (a)  
provide large scale value to customers
in terms of data processing and as a consequence (b) provide value for  
the vendors.


Best regards
Dana