Understood, and I suspect that many of these are self-employed, so the survey might not have been directed to them. That is, one of the criteria for completing the survey was the employment of three or more developers in the shop; that's why I wondered about the makeup of HT. Ed "Robert Heller" <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote in message news:200802122018.m1CKItvP018238 at sharky.deepsoft.com... > > There seem to be a lot of web designers and 'web programmers' (php / > AJAX / Web 2.0). In many ways, 'web programmers' are not really > 'software developers' in the traditional sense -- they are creating web > sites / web content via specialized programming languages rather than > writing (standalone) application programs and such and are not > delivering 'software' itself, but are delivering *dynamic* 'web sites' > and 'web content'. And many of the rest are various sorts of 'content > providers' (video, blogging, etc.) or various sorts of service > providers of one sort or another (ISPs, telecomm, IT support services, > etc.). Some of us do several things -- *I* do contract programming (when I > can), work on open source projects, provide web hosting, and do Linux > System Admin. > > > -- > Robert Heller -- Get the Deepwoods Software FireFox Toolbar! > Deepwoods Software -- Linux Installation and Administration > http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Web Hosting, with CGI and Database > heller at deepsoft.com -- Contract Programming: C/C++, Tcl/Tk >