I guess we all have to watch out what we say about things that people care about. A few weeks ago, James Gosling, the father of the Java programming language, was quoted from an Sys-Con TV interview saying, "Java Is Under No Serious Threat From PHP, Ruby or C#". His comments immediately sparked an Internet […]
According to a survey conducted by Mercer Human Resource Consulting LLC, a software engineer in Beijing makes $13,400 per year. In India, a software engineer makes $10,300 per year. Salaries in India are growing at 11.5% per year (over the past 5 years) and 7.5% per year in China in the same period. The survey […]
As part of our sharp focus on the developer community we are continuing to travel, speak, and write about what we are doing at "DevCo" and to show developers our products and our roadmaps. In May, I will be spending time in Europe as part of a travelling seminar series focused on our developer and […]
Some of you may have read a recent article by Verity Stob on Reg developer. The article talks about the “Sons of Kahn“, “the valley of the Scotts“, “The word of Tod“, and “The March of the Users“. Take a look, it is very entertaining. After reading the online article, I took it upon myself to […]
I have just returned from our developer conference in Tokyo Japan. Thank you to all of the great community members who spent last Friday with us. During the opening keynote and in press meetings I presented some of the reasons for the spin-off (”DevCo”) of the developer and database products. We are moving forward with the preparations […]