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From Issue #83
March 2001

Mar 01, 2001  By Various
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Job Opening Trends

by Reginald Charney

Fuzzy Data

There was a plethora of terms found when analyzing the job-opening descriptions. For example, Windows' terms include 95, NT, CE, Win, Windows NT, etc. Besides various abbreviations, there are also ambiguous words. Is Win followed by NT to be counted as Windows and Windows NT or just Windows NT alone? Generally, the “maximum munch” rule is used. That is, the longest recognizable term possible is used. Then there are still the misspellings and unknown words. Thus, all this makes determining what is required fuzzy. Having said that, here are some of the statistics used in the job descriptions:

  • number of job openings: 129,000

  • number of unique words: 12,200

  • number of unique skill sets: 68,800

Five most often used words:

  • C++: 19,951

  • Java: 16,920

  • SQL: 9,121

  • vb: 9,003

  • HTML: 8,788

  • JavaScript: 4,793

As you would expect with all these terms, skill sets made up of a couple of words would tend to appear more often than skill sets made up of three or more words. The top five skill sets were:

  • frame relay: 445

  • Oracle dba: 445

  • C++ Java: 412

  • WinNT server: 361

  • Shell script: 361

Thanks to DICE at www.dice.com for a truly valuable service and allowing me to analyze some of their data.

Reginald Charney currently heads the US chapter of the Association of the C and C++ Users. Visit their site at http://www.accu-usa.org/ to learn more.

Linus Torvalds, Then and Now

Linus Torvalds [from LJ March 1995]: “I'll make a [kernel] 2.0 someday...” “No wonder Linux works so well. He has an alpha-testing lab of ten thousand people!” says someone from Novell.

Mr. Torvalds [from LJ November 1999], married with children, well into the 2.x series of kernels with eight million users strong.

LJ Index—March 2001

  1. Market cap in billions of USD at which Yahoo is worth more than all magazines put together: 30

  2. Number of billions of USD IBM is investing in Linux software, hardware, services, partnerships and the Open Source community in 2001: 1

  3. Number of servers X-series computers in what IBM claims will be the world's largest Linux supercomputer: 1,024

  4. Number of racks used to house all those Linux boxes: 32

  5. Sum in trillions of USD that will be spent on Internet infrastructure and e-commerce by 2003, exceeding the gross domestic products of Germany, France and the UK: 2.8

  6. Year by which Vint Cerf expects the number of net-connected devices will outnumber the world's telephones: 2006

  7. Millions of net-connected devices, independent of cell phones, Vint Cerf predicts will exist by 2006: 900

  8. Number of airline flights in the next 24 hours: 42,300

  9. Number of people who will take those flights: 3, 000,000

  10. Number of flights that will crash: 0

  11. Number of travelers in 1999 who used the Net to plan trips and make reservations: 52,000,000

  12. Percent of application developers worldwide who say they plan to write wireless applications in the next year: 40

  13. Position of Linux as a web server platform: #1

  14. Percentage of web servers that ran on Linux as of May, 2000: 36

  15. Position of Linux among fastest-growing server operating systems: #1

  16. Internet-related applications as a percentage of spending on Linux servers: 40

  17. Number of handheld and notebook information appliances by 2002: 55,000,000

  18. Year by which shipments of handhelds and notebook appliances will exceed shipments of PCs: 2005

Sources:

  • 1: Forbes

  • 2-4: IBM

  • 5: Nortel & International Data Corp. (IDC)

  • 6-7: Domain Street

  • 8-10: Boeing

  • 11-12: Evans Data Corp.

  • 13-14: Netcraft

  • 15-18: IDC

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