size of XQuery developer community

[Paul Agbetile]

I'm guilty of a generalisation. I'd assumed an ecosystem of languages  
under which I felt XQuery would naturally find a home to work in  
conjuction with. i.e Java, xpath, C#. These have seen a slump. However  
I must admit some of these like Perl had begun a slump long before the  
downturn.

I do find LINQ a curious case.
I can only assume Microsoft's tentacles with its developer SDK and the  
attraction to gold partners are so far reaching it has provided it  
free publicity which is why it has bucked the trend.

With Cloud computing also being one of those things that appears in  
every IT magazine that lands on an IT managers desk (thanks in part  
large to advertising budgets by virtualisation companies) I'm sure  
this lead to google hits. I also know a few people who probably think  
they should know what it is in case ever discussed in a meeting.

I wouldn't be surprised if during a downturn companies still spent on  
applications that relate more to multimedia and advertising such as  
Adobe AIR than core ETL type development.

On 27 Aug 2009, at 17:23, Ken North <http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk> wrote:

>>> I am not sure google trends at present is a good indicator of  
>>> XQuery's uptake as searches across all major programming languages  
>>> has slumped over the past 12 - 18 months. Personally I am more  
>>> inclined to link this to the current economic downturn...
>
> Hmm...
>
> Both LINQ and cloud computing show a steady increase in the number  
> of searches from 2007-2009. For LINQ searches, English ranked as the  
> seventh language.
> http://www.google.com/trends?q=LINQ%2C+%22cloud+computing%22&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
>
> SaaS is up slightly in 2007-2009 versus 2004-2005.
>
> XQuery versus Grails and Adobe AIR
> http://www.google.com/trends?q=XQuery%2C+%22Adobe+AIR%22%2C+Grails&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=1
>
> The number of searches for LINQ is an upward trend, along with some  
> framework and platform-related searches.
>
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