On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai <abpil...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 ;-)
he. So true. So true. <snip> -- http://amitksaha.blogspot.com http://amitsaha.in.googlepages.com/ *Bangalore Open Java Users Group*:http:www.bojug.in "Recursion is the basic iteration mechanism in Scheme" --- http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TailRecursion _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
