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2005-2006 Vote Archive

DevX Vote: This week, Microsoft announced it's collaborating with the Eclipse Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) team to allow Eclipse to use the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). You say?

DevX Vote: What was the most interesting thing to come out of last week's Microsoft-sponsored MIX08 show?

DevX Vote: When the recently released browser betas go final, which will you use?

DevX Vote: At a Microsoft SharePoint conference this week, Bill Gates said Google's productivity tools (e.g., Google Docs, Gmail, Calendar, Reader, etc.) do not address the needs of businesses. You sa

DevX Vote: Which of Adobe's announcements this week interests you most?

DevX Vote: Which Java EE application server's adoption of OSGi, the component model for modularizing Java environments, is most interesting to you?

DevX Vote: Which of the developer-centric offerings that Microsoft is delivering at its Office System Developer Conference this week is most intriguing?

DevX Vote: The W3C has released the first public working draft of HTML 5. What do you think of it?

DevX Vote: What will Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech (makers of the Qt tool suite) mean for mobile application development?

DevX Vote: What's your reaction to Sun's acquisition of MySQL?

DevX Vote: IBM just opened up its Jazz collaborative development platform for team-based software development and delivery. What's your reaction?

DevX Vote: What do you think of the proposed "Emacs.NET" project at Microsoft to develop a .NET version of Emacs?

DevX Vote: The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has settled its second GPL infringement case and has two similar cases still pending. What's your take?

DevX Vote: What is the best feature of the recently released Ruby on Rails 2.0?

DevX Vote: Which of these just-released or soon-to-be-released products would rank highest on your Holiday gift list?

DevX Vote: Recent polls give differing pictures of Vista adoption. At your company...

DevX Vote: With Microsoft reportedly shipping Visual Studio 2008 (formerly code-named Orcas) this week, which new feature has you most excited?

DevX Vote: The Open Handset Alliance, a mobile technology group that includes Google, Motorola, and Sprint, just released an "early look" software development kit (SDK) for its Android mobile platform

DevX Vote: How much interest do you have in functional programming and functional languages?

DevX Vote: What's your position on Net Neutrality legislation to prevent Internet service providers from blocking or degrading certain kinds of traffic?

DevX Vote: What would the impact be on your organization if Oracle's bid to acquire BEA succeeded?

DevX Vote: Does the concept of social networks as developer platforms (e.g., Facebook) interest you?

DevX Vote: When you hear software as a service (SaaS), what's the first thing that comes to mind?

DevX Vote: What's your take on the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) suing Monsoon Multimedia for allegedly failing to comply with the General Public License (GPL)?

DevX Vote: How would you classify the collaboration between designers and developers in your organization?

DevX Vote: Later this year, BEA will release a version of its Workshop Studio IDE that will come bundled with Adobe Flex Builder 2 for RIA development. You say:

DevX Vote: Who stands to gain the most from IBM's plans to join the OpenOffice.org project and use the software in its own products?

DevX Vote: Microsoft says its attempt to make Open XML an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard has been voted down. What's your take?

DevX Vote: What do you think of advertising-dependent Web sites blocking browsers that employ ad-blocking tools?

DevX Vote: The Japanese Communications Minister said Japan will start research and development on a new network generation to replace the Internet, with the intention of bringing it into commercial us

DevX Vote: The Novell CEO recently stated that the most important need for increasing Linux adoption is providing ISVs with a standard application verification process across distributions. Agree?

DevX Vote: At what point do you start to take a new development technology seriously?

DevX Vote: Which of the tool previews that Microsoft plans to release this week are you most eager to use?

DevX Vote: What do you think of mashup platforms that enable end-users with little development experience to assemble composite web applications?

DevX Vote: If it were up to me (and my greedy applications), every server would run:

DevX Vote: Which technology is most likely to advance Linux mobile development in the smartphone arena?

DevX Vote: The Apple iPhone is out now (you may have noticed one or two ads). What do you think of the new device?

DevX Vote: What do you think of the "tickless" kernel in new versions of Linux, a power-efficient alternative to traditional computer time-keeping?

DevX Poll: What is your application lifecycle management (ALM) solution?

DevX Vote: A recent survey found that developers ranked eBay's developer program as the best among so-called Web 2.0 companies. Which program would top your list?

DevX Vote: What impact do you think the Semantic Web will have on your applications?

DevX Vote: Sun is working on a smaller (2-4MB), consumer Java Runtime Environment (JRE) to improve the download, installation, and cold start experience. You say:

DevX Vote: Verisign's iDefense is putting up a $16,000 prize for any hacker who can find a remotely exploitable zero-day code execution hole in any of six critical Internet infrastructure applications

DevX Vote: Which announcement from last week's JavaOne Conference excites you most?

DevX Vote: Adobe Systems announced it will open-source its next version of the Flex Web development framework later this year. How will you react?

DevX Vote: Does Microsoft's lack of official support for .NET on operating systems other than Windows prevent developers from running it on Linux/Mac/BSD/whatever?

DevX Vote: Yesterday, Microsoft announced "Silverlight," its Flash-killer technology, formerly WPF/E. What do you think of this new technology?

DevX Vote: Which one of the new hosted services that Microsoft is offering for its BizTalk Server integration platform are you most likely to use?

DevX Vote: The Debian project team just released Debian GNU/Linux version 4.0 after nearly two years of development. You say:

DevX Vote: How has your Vista installation process gone so far?

DevX Vote: Adobe just released a public alpha of Apollo, a cross-OS run-time and SDK for building and deploying RIAs (rich Internet applications) on the desktop. What's your take?

DevX Vote: Microsoft is open sourcing core portions of the Visual FoxPro DBMS to its CodePlex community development site. Your thoughts?

DevX Vote: Which of Microsoft's announcements around its Dynamics brand of enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management suites is most interesting to you?

DevX Vote: Daylight saving time in the United States will begin two weeks earlier this year. How disruptive to your systems do you expect the switch to be?

DevX Vote: Which .Net Framework 3.0 API set, included with and installed by default with Vista, will be most useful for your development?

DevX Vote: SUSE Linux maker Novell's recent patent deal with Microsoft met with opposition from open source advocates. Which gesture is most likely to affect Novell's sales?

DevX Vote: Microsoft is withdrawing its patent application for a technology already used in BlueJ, a free Java programming environment for beginners. What do you think?

DevX Vote: Sun recently announced its plan to license OpenSolaris under GPL v3. What do you think?

DevX Vote: Which tradeshow would you attend this week if money were no object, Macworld in San Francisco or the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas?

DevX Vote: Why do you think the Fedora Legacy project is shutting down long-term Fedora Linux support?

DevX Vote: A Vista security flaw was discovered over the holiday weekend. You say ...

DevX Vote: Is the era of free community support coming to an end?

DevX Vote: Which feature of the recently released Java SE 6 is most important to you?

DevX Vote: Which social editing/bookmarking site is most trustworthy for quality developer links?

DevX Vote: What do you think of Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth soliciting developers on the main OpenSUSE list to abandon Novell SUSE for Ubuntu?

DevX Vote: Eclipse recently celebrated its fifth birthday. What's been its greatest contribution?

DevX Vote: Now that Sun has open sourced Java under the GPL v2, I can't wait to:

DevX Vote: What is your first impression of the partnership announced between Novell and Microsoft?

DevX Vote: What will be the effect of Oracle's Unbreakable program to support Red Hat Linux less expensively than Red Hat?

DevX Vote: Not long after Sun hired the JRuby developers, Microsoft has hired the RubyCLR developers. What does that tell you?

DevX Vote: Microsoft just announced that its Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) image format spec can be used freely without a commercial license. Your thoughts?

DevX Vote: Salesforce.com just announced plans for a Java-like programming language that allows developers to create and run applications atop Saleforce's on-demand platform. Your thoughts?

DevX Vote: What is your AJAX toolkit or library of choice?

DevX Vote: What do you make of top Linux developers' objections to the proposed version 3 of the GPL (GNU General Public License)?

DevX Vote: A recent Microsoft open letter urged third-party developers to build "cool" new applications for the Windows Vista OS. Your thoughts?

DevX Vote: Microsoft is soliciting ideas for a "release" name for its AJAX technology, currently code-named Atlas. Which of these names might get your vote?

DevX Poll: What's your take on Sun hiring the lead JRuby developers to build an implementation of the Ruby language on the Java Virtual Machine?

DevX Vote: How often do you use external Web APIs in your programming?

DevX Vote: Microsoft recently released the XNA Game Studio Express, a product that enables developers to write games that will run on both Windows XP and the XBox 360. What's your reaction?

DevX Vote: Which of these Linux development aspects is of most interest to you?

DevX Vote: Suse Linux maker Novell has stopped distributing proprietary software modules that plug into the Linux kernel. You say:

DevX Vote: JetBrains, makers of the Java IDE IntelliJ IDEA, is introducing a new, open team management system called TeamCity. Your thoughts?

DevX Vote: Microsoft recently announced that they're making VirtualPC, a product that formerly cost $129.00, free. What do you think?

DevX Vote: Microsoft just announced Private Folder 1.0, a free download that lets Windows users hide sensitive data in a private, password-protected folder. Your thoughts?

DevX Vote: Why did you select the IDE you're using?

DevX Vote: Microsoft announced it will neither deliver WinFS as a stand-alone offering nor release Beta 2 of the product. Your reaction?

DevX Vote: How will Bill Gates' plan to leave the day-to-day operations at Microsoft by 2008 affect the company?

DevX Vote: Microsoft has used Windows Update and a "high priority" label to deliver a prerelease anti-piracy tool to PC users who may not be aware of it. You say:

DevX Vote: Which security advancement to Windows Vista is likely to make the biggest difference?

DevX Vote: Which product launch at this week's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference interests you the most?

DevX Vote: Sun officials announced that open source Java is not a matter of whether but a matter of how. How do you suggest Sun goes about it?

DevX Vote: Open-source software and services provider OpenLogic has launched a commercial support program through which developers are paid for each issue they resolve for OpenLogic customers. You say

DevX Vote: Google has complained to authorities about Microsoft's plan to include an integrated MSN-search bar in IE 7. What do you think?

DevX Vote: How will Scott McNealy's handing over the CEO reins to Jonathan Schwartz at Sun affect Java?

DevX Vote: Microsoft reportedly will release a new test build of Windows Vista to select testers some time the week. Interested?

DevX Vote: What's your reaction to Red Hat agreeing to buy JBoss for some $350 million?

DevX Vote: How interested are you in embedded systems development?

DevX Vote: Where do you stand on the need for patent reform in the U.S.?

DevX Vote: Microsoft announced a spate of upcoming developer tools at Mix06 this week, including a Go-live version of Atlas, a new beta of IE 7, and a new committment to platform-agnostic Web development. What do you think?

DevX Vote: Microsoft just released news about its Origami Project and previewed Origami devices, small-form-factor, XP-based computers it calls "ultra-mobile PCs." What do you think?

DevX Vote: What's the solution for growing electricity usage and overheating in datacenters?

DevX Vote: What the heck is Web 2.0 anyway?

DevX Vote: Which of the highlighted features in the just-released Java SE 6 ("Mustang") Beta are you most eager to try?

DevX Vote: Oracle reportedly is targeting a few open-source product companies for acquisition. Which would add the most value to the Oracle product line?

DevX Vote: Which hot tech job for 2006 most reflects the skills lacking in your organization?

DevX Vote: Microsoft released a preview of Internet Explorer 7 this week. Which new feature interests you most?

DevX Vote: The Free Software Foundation just released the first public discussion draft of the General Public License (GPL) version 3. Which proposed reform is most important?

DevX Vote: Some are declaring that Java is on its way out. What do you think the future holds for Java?

DevX Vote: What do you think of Fedora Core 5 including Mono in its next release?

DevX Vote: I believe 2006 will be the year of...

DevX Vote: Now that the 1.0 release of Ruby on Rails (RoR) is out, you say:

DevX Vote: How worried are you about the security threat rootkits pose to your Windows machines?

DevX Vote: Who benefits most from Sun making its entire Enterprise System product line freely available?

DevX Vote: Instead of offering open standard file formats for Office 12, Microsoft announced the "Patent Protection Covenant," promising not to sue over use of the proprietary formats. You say:

DevX Vote: The SANS Institute is predicting that security threats are shifting away from holes in operating systems and Internet-based attacks to ones that pray on applications and network devices.

DevX Vote: Now that eBay offers its developer API for free, you're thinking:

DevX Vote: Microsoft kicked off its "Launch Tour 2005" this week to announce its next-generation development tools and servers. What's got you most excited?

DevX Vote: What's your reaction to Oracle releasing a free version of Oracle Database 10g Express Edition this week?

DevX Vote: The Free Software Foundation's European branch (FSFE) congratulated Microsoft for its new Shared Source Initiative, which reduced its primary licenses from over 10 to three. Your thoughts?

DevX Vote: The Linux Standard Base Desktop Project aims to standardize Linux desktop components in order to spur widespread adoption. What do you think of the effort?

DevX Vote: What are you using virtualization for primarily?

DevX Vote: From your point of view, what's the story behind Sun and Google's partnership and software distribution deal?

DevX Vote: What do you make of Microsoft and JBoss signing a partnership to make their server software work together better?

DevX Vote: In the wake of the Oracle/Siebel merger announcement, you're thinking:

DevX Vote: Which Microsoft announcement from this week's PDC intrigues you most?

DevX Vote: What's the biggest foreseeable threat to Microsoft?

DevX Vote: OSDL rejecting Microsoft's proposal for a joint research project.

DevX Vote: How do you gauge your skill level?

DevX Vote: What do you make of the AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) hoopla?

DevX Vote: When you hear that a software vendor is "opening up" one of its products to the community, you think

DevX Vote: IBM has joined the Harmony project. If the project succeeds, will you use it?

DevX Vote: More than 10,000 people have signed a petition asking IBM to release OS/2 (or portions thereof) to o

DevX Vote: Now that Apache's Geronimo Java application server has passed the J2EE 1.4.1 test compatibility kit...

DevX Vote: What's the anxiety level at your organization over SOA?

DevX Vote: Microsoft has announced "Atlas," an AJAX implementation to be delivered as an add-on to ASP.NET. What do you think?

DevX Vote: JavaOne 2005 is the first time Microsoft has participated in the show. You say:

DevX Vote: What's the most exciting thing about the eBay Developers Conference taking place this week?

DevX Vote: What does open source software mean to you nowadays?

DevX Vote: A skit during Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's opening keynote address at the TechEd conference this week identified the top five things information workers want. Which sounds most familiar?

DevX Vote: With so many Java Web development frameworks out there, which one do you trust for your production applications?

DevX Vote: Ten years ago this week, Sun introduced Java to the world. What has been its most significant contribution in the past decade?

DevX Vote: Sun and Microsoft just announced two draft specs for single sign-on.

DevX Vote: Apache has proposed Project Harmony. What's your take?

DevX Vote: Bill Gates reportedly said he would make the following U.S. policy changes if he were king. Which would you endorse?

DevX Vote: What's your anticipation level for 64-bit computing?

What is Adobe's attempt to acquire Macromedia all about?

Which organization's solution for open-source license proliferation makes the most sense?

If you had your way, how would your application development environment be built?

Survey results released this week by tools vendor DataDirect show more than half of developers use XQuery, even though the spec is only a working draft. You're thinking:

If you had a whole week, deadline-free, to do nothing but program, what would you do?

What do you think about Microsoft dropping support for VB6 soon?

Which is the most important value of a software development methodology?

Yahoo just announced Web search APIs for creating apps with images, video, news, and local search. What's your take?

BEA is expected to join the Eclipse Foundation next week. What's your reaction?

If Visual Studio Tools for Office enabled you to write or extend Office applications, as if it were a full-fledged platform, you'd say:

These days, whose job is it *really* to worry about security?

Is the proliferation of open-source licenses a problem?

Which phase of the software development cycle is most critical to "get right" the first time?

Software security is mostly ___________.

Which are you most likely to do in 2005?

With all the buzz about browsers cutting into IE's dominance, what do you think will happen?

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