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Farcical Java vendor polls
Now I love the content in the JDJ as much as the next Java Developer (although I'm angry that it's so damned expensive in Aus, but we're used to that) - but these annual 'reader polls' are a joke.
JBoss rants aside (we're all used to that - it doesn't help one way or the other), do these polls prove anything? No.
Everyone gets their customers to vote. It's rigged. It's not a reader poll, it's a customer poll.
Sadly the only people who think it has anything approaching validity are moronic managers and the people whose products happen to win.
IMHO there should be different categories of voters, with each recorded separately. Anyone with a JDJ subscription should be in one poll (the most valid I'd say?), and all the punters who just go there to vote should be in another poll. Then we'd see how skewed the results are.
As my own personal act of attempting to restore the balance, I resolute abstained from voting on anything I didn't truly believe was a good product. End result? I basically just voted for IDEA and Glue.
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You mean the free offer of a 1 year subscription to JDJ for devlopers did not apply to you?
But seriously JDJ already has separate polls although I am not sure its exactly along your lines though..
It still ends up being decided on market-share lines, though. Most people have only used a very narrow range of products, and certainly haven't sampled all of the contestants in each category deeply enough to make an informed decision. So most people just go with what they know, and think is good. Which only has a very loose correlation with which of the listed products is actually the best.
I imagine a lot of the JBoss vote comes from a protest-vote against Weblogic or Websphere. Most people (like me) are forced use one of those two. They've dabbled in JBoss in their spare time, but have never used it in serious development or production, so JBoss ends up with the vote, basically for looking cool.
I downloaded the digital version yesterday - I received (an I can't remember exactly what type of newsletter it was, but it was from JDJ) a monthly email with a link to download the current version - and two minutes later I had the pdf on my desktop - adverts and all...
I've been talking with JDJ about a few ways to change the vote. I even blogged about it some time ago (http://enigmastation.com/blog/1049456585026.resource) and lately I may have started seeing some progress in that direction. :)
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