Keynote | The Rise and Fall and Rise of Java | James Governor

The Rise and Fall and Rise of Java November 2011

The Rise

The History Soure: Tiobe Programming Community Index

The Fall

The Decline

The Analysts

Forrester's Mike Gualtieri

Forrester's John Rymer

The Events

Source: Ars Technica

What developers were asking us in 2010 Source: RedMonk Analytics

Unipolar, Bipolar or Multipolar
the ASF
the Eclipse Foundation
Google
IBM
Oracle
OSGi
VMware Springsource

SpringSource
“ For the first time in 10 years, I have no
desire to go to JavaOne.”
Rod Johnson, CEO SpringSource
Spring made JEE less painful
Groovy
RabbitMQ
Cloud Foundry

Language Fragmentation

The Rise

Java Mentions on Open Source List Traffic

Has Java Peaked ?

Everything is relative

The evidence does not support the claim that Java is a “ dead end”

Java is no longer as popular

What Java is is the most popular

When Web Companies Grow Up

Google even does stuff like

Embrace and extend: the sincerest form of flattery
“ We saw more and more people were writing cloud applications in Java .”
- Amitabh Srivastava, Microsoft SVP Server and Cloud Division, announcing “first class support” for Java in Azure

Language Diversity and the JVM

Hadoop at Facebook
http://hadoopblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/facebook-has-worlds-largest-hadoop.html

Brains
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