In the opening keynote of last day (Day 1 & Day 2) of TheServerSide Java Symposium, Joe asked the following questions, to an audience of approx 500 Java developers, receiving instant feedback.
How satisfied are you with Sun ?
| Very satisfied | 20% |
| Somewhat satisfied | 48% |
| Neutral | 23% |
| Somewhat dissatisfied | 6% |
| Very dissatisfied | 3% |
How important is that a tool or library be open source ?
| Death to closed source! | 9% |
| Definitely prefer open source | 61% |
| I don’t care | 16% |
| Being open help s a little | 11% |
| Open source people are communities | 3% |
Which of the following best describes your company ?
| We are an open source producer | 4% |
| We use open source but don’t contribute to it | 69% |
| We produce open source and proprietary software | 19% |
| We don’t have anything to do with open source | 11% |
I attended 2 more talks on Writing Big Apps with Google Web Toolkit and Scripting API in Java SE 6 that day and left around right after lunch to catch my flight back home.
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