Well Well, Let's look into the analysis a bit

I posted yesterday on the wonderful logic behind the language/development analysis. Well comes today some more information: These are the language usage statistics that Gartner's analysts believe to be true:

Language Usage Statistics

Java	70%
VB	70%
Cobol	45%
C++	45%
PB	20%
Delphi	10%

This is supposed to represent language penetration. According to the report, if your language isn't there, you better stop using it. Looks like we have some news for all those Perl, Python, and C developers - time to migrate! But hey, if you are using Cobol or PowerBuilder, you are up to date and in the mainstream. Now recall, the analysts in question produced this report - which states that 70% of all Java projects fail. And in the comments to this old post, you get this lovely direct quote:

"Smalltalk has become a niche technology that will be used by less than five percent of enterprises for another few years, mostly in the maintenance mode." "There are one or two reputable vendors that still support Smalltalk (e.g. IBM) but they do not and will not introduce significant enhancements, recognizing the niche status of Smalltalk." "Smalltalk applications should be relegated in the maintenance mode: do enhancements, do not do major new development!" "As a strategic, long-term direction enterprises should choose a mainstream technology: either (or both) Java or/and Microsoft technology."