On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Ramdas S <ram...@developeriq.com> wrote: > > Answer is $$$ is required for funding conferences. The organizers did not > find anyone with $$$ who has some vested interest in Python. If they had > you'd see Python there. I you look at sponsors of the conference, you can > map them easily to talks/topics of interest. > > In India for every python developer you can find 5K java developers. As a > company CEO will you look at Python or Java, when it is not the decision > maker who'll write the code? >
Corporate vested interests is the reason. Sun invented java not for evangelism or altruism but to attract a lot of developers to its pantheon and of course to get entrenched in all kinds of computing on the network using Internet, the original design goal of Java. Big companies keep doing this from time to time since investing and standardizing on a language is often the most sureshot way to get developers on to their platforms (but surely a very expensive way of doing it). Microsoft did it for VB/C++ and now C# and .NET, Apple for Obj-C and Sun for Java. Of course IBM also has a lot of investment in Java, since though Sun invented it, IBM has made more money from it than Sun ;-) Open source languages not being the creation of any specific entity or corporation don't get this kind of adoption or evangelism. Since the underlying technology is open, there are limited pickings for a company to take advantage (embrace/extend/extinguish) of the language or invest millions of dollars on it to train their developers. On the other hand closed platforms and languages can be more easily controlled and hence investment in them often returns handsome dividends in terms of money and/or mind share. I liked the title of the conference - "Great Indian Developer Summit" ;-). Somehow it produces an image of armies of uniform, robotic programmers waiting to hear every golden word uttered from the overlords of software world. Quite unlike the visage of a vast open, green park with lush trees and lazy developers siting below them with laptops, which is the image in mind whenever I hear of a barcamp, devcamp or any other open source conference! > > -- -Anand _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
