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To: damniseedemons who wrote (15981)	1/11/1998 6:59:00 AM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 24154

>>>CORBA? I didn't think it was doing so well...<<< It wasn't. The last few months though, there seems to have been an increase for that, and the IFC, and other competitors to COM. It's the anything-but-MSFT club at work again, I suppose. And CORBA seems to have gotten cleaned up and made useful while I was concentrating elsewhere. Also, if you are going to do Java or Unix or Mainframe you aren't going to do COM or ActiveX by definition, so there needs to be some other way. You can check this trend out on the programmer newsgroups from Netscape Collabra or Trumpet Newsreader, or whatever. (comp.x...) Also, though Reg alledges that he has programming guru friends that are too busy to read, the rest of us who intend to survive the fierce change going on in programming read thick expensive new books rather voraciously, because if you don't you end up clueless pretty soon and you stop getting top dollar. So my "Staceys Test", going to Staceys technical section, where the web developers and Game and multimedia and financial development types all shop in San Francisco, is a pretty good test of what is going on. They buy new books every day based on the requests they are getting from programmers in SF and Silicon Valley. Lately they just haven't been able to push those COM and ActiveX books, but the Java JDBC books seem to be leaping off the shelves. thus the change I noted in relative shelf space devoted to non-MSFT web and network programming topics. Maybe they Microsoft faithful all shop for books via their IS department bulk purchasing, to go along with those mandatory Microsoft tools. Or maybe they only read the docs on their developer disks. I dunno. Chaz