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Day 3 @ The Server Side Java Symposium

Posted by arungupta on March 24, 2007 at 09:50 PM | Comments (0)

In the opening keynote of last day (Day 1 & Day 2) of TheServerSide Java Symposium, Joe asked the following questions, to an audience of approx 500 Java developers, receiving instant feedback.

How satisfied are you with Sun ?

Very satisfied	20%
Somewhat satisfied	48%
Neutral	23%
Somewhat dissatisfied	6%
Very dissatisfied	3%

How important is that a tool or library be open source ?

Death to closed source!	9%
Definitely prefer open source	61%
I don't care	16%
Being open help s a little	11%
Open source people are communities	3%

Which of the following best describes your company ?

We are an open source producer	4%
We use open source but don't contribute to it	69%
We produce open source and proprietary software	19%
We don't have anything to do with open source	11%

I attended 2 more talks on Writing Big Apps with Google Web Toolkit and Scripting API in Java SE 6 that day and left around right after lunch to catch my flight back home.

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