Evans Data’s Developer Marketing 2014 survey of 450 software developers showed that 19.3% (or approximately 3.5 million) developers worldwide are women, compared to the years between 2003 and 2009, when the percentage of female developers was in single digits.
Record number of women in software development, survey says - SD Times: Software Development News
Of note, if you do the math (thanks to @barton808 for correcting my bone-headed thinking) you get 17.5m developers world-wide.
We are also seeing big growth in the private cloud space. But in terms of building a public cloud to compete with partners we are not doing that at all.
Michael Dell in an interview with CRN.
See also the longer piece on CRN going over Dell’s cloud strategy.
I still hear CIOs worry that cloud vendor lock-in would let them raise prices. This ruse is used to justify private cloud investments. Even without switching vendors, you will see repeated price reductions for the public cloud systems you are already using. This was the 42nd price cut for AWS, the argument is ridiculous.
Business instincts and intuition are being augmented and increasingly replaced by data analysis as the drivers of success. We’ve seen it at Dell. Our marketing team uncovered more than $310 million in additional revenue last year through the use of advanced analytics. This year, we expect that number to exceed half-a-billion.
Michael Dell, who invested personally in the recent Cloudera mega-round
I am not sure what to conclude from the obvious high level of interest in compiling [.Net] apps for iOS and Android.
Tim Anderson, ever astute and detailed on the Microsoft programming ecosystem
Business instincts and intuition are being augmented and increasingly replaced by data analysis as the drivers of success. We’ve seen it at Dell. Our marketing team uncovered more than $310 million in additional revenue last year through the use of advanced analytics. This year, we expect that number to exceed half-a-billion.
Michael Dell, who invested personally in the recent Cloudera mega-round
I am not sure what to conclude from the obvious high level of interest in compiling [.Net] apps for iOS and Android.
Tim Anderson, ever astute and detailed on the Microsoft programming ecosystem
I still hear CIOs worry that cloud vendor lock-in would let them raise prices. This ruse is used to justify private cloud investments. Even without switching vendors, you will see repeated price reductions for the public cloud systems you are already using. This was the 42nd price cut for AWS, the argument is ridiculous.
