[xquery-talk] size of XQuery developer community

[David A. Lee]

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
dlee at calldei.com  
http://www.calldei.com
http://www.xmlsh.org
812-482-5224



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
> _______________________________________________
> talk at x-query.com
> http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk
>