About 17% of 3,200 respondents have programmed in Java and 58% are planning on using it, according to a survey by the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Visualization and Usability Center. Only 15% of respondents predicted that Java would revolutionize the Web and almost 30% saw the value of Java as only aesthetic or having no […]
About 17% of 3,200 respondents have programmed in Java and 58% are planning on using it, according to a survey by the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Visualization and Usability Center. Only 15% of respondents predicted that Java would revolutionize the Web and almost 30% saw the value of Java as only aesthetic or having no value at all. But the survey’s findings need to be taken with a grain of salt, as it was based on a non-random sample. The study consists of answers from users who filled out electronic questionnaires on popular Web sites such as CNN Interactive and Netscape Communication Corp’s home pages, said Jim Pitko a PhD candidate at GIT who worked on the survey. About 73% of the respondents were in the US and the rest were mainly European. About 28% worked in the computer field, 30% were educators or students and the rest were managers. The most significant finding was that 17% were using Java, since we didn’t have any idea when we started how many were integrating it. The survey shows that Java has already taken hold and that it’s going to really roll out over the next year, Pitko said.
