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Recent finding: XQuery Adoption Rate Soaring?

In a recent developer survery conducted amoungst XML developers, some interesting findings jump out immediately:

'52% of XML developers have already started working with XQuery in the last 12 months and another 33% have plans to start using XQuery in 2005'

This is a significant figure, given the 550 respondants we had to the survey, I think it is clear we are seeing a leading edge curve of developers taking an interest in this technology. For readers of Java.net, this should not be interpreted as a threat, more as an excellent tool to succeed in the on-going challenge of data integration between XML, relational and many other data sources.

I've included the press release below, but if you want to get your hands on the detailed developer survey you can head to the DataDirect website, fill out a quick form and we'll send you a copy.

Comments

• This is a blog? Who is Jonathan Bruce? There's no advertising section on Sun's site somewhere for this shite? I realize companies look at blogs as advertising, but I thought it was pretty much limited to advertising their own code, not some other slob's. A fooking DataDirect ad in the Sun blogs? C'mon.

  Posted by: donjigweed on March 29, 2005 at 08:43 PM

• I posted this here as it's of interest to many Java developers. XQuery is an important technology that is capturing alot of developer attention.

  As for posting an advertisement; the press release is a copy and paste, however I'll reduce it to a URL which is probably more appropriate to Java.net

  Posted by: jonbruce on March 30, 2005 at 04:54 AM

• Well, I thought it was an interessting info. Besides XQuery has many vendors and implementations.

  Posted by: pcwheels on March 30, 2005 at 06:29 AM

• This has been done to death on the xml-dev and mulberry xslt lists; for the sample of 75,000 IT professionals, 550 people submitted complete surveys, 477 of which indicated that they currently use or plan to use XQuery this year.

  That is 0.6%, not 52% of the sample.

  The only valid conclusion is that vast majority of 'IT professionals' are apathetic when spammed with marketing surveys.

  Posted by: pete_kirkham on March 31, 2005 at 01:43 AM

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