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I guess I made the tour of all mainstream webtechnolgies availble at this day and the good news is that I'm picking up easily new syntaxes :)
At the end of the day there are 2 leaders .NET and J2EE. Both are solid platforms and use mainstream programming languages. Then after those two giants you have Macromedia with its technologies like Coldfusion, Flash and Flex. Flex looks really promising and would probably add some more guys to the army of developers at the cost of designers. Coz we don't need them that much having powerfool tools like Flex :)
Then we have perl, php server-side languages and those should be popular coz they're simple and free. Personally I'm not a big fan perl and find that its syntax is a bit messy and PHP4 is not a OO language.
And then we got ruby on rails which is getting more and more popular among developers due to its simple syntax and its purely OO model.
To conclude I would point out that among new comers rails is the biggest winner and every above-mentioned techologies will try to imitate rails framework on their respective territory if they haven't already done that. Coldfusion community is alive with coldfsion on wheels http://www.cube6media.com/weblog/entry/2005/11/14/coldfusion-on-wheels
and php developers are also there and java developers are too but it looks clumsy on those platforms. It can be explained by the nature of the languages.
RoR is a young framework but it has already produced a tremendous response from the developers' communities coming fron different platforms.
That's it for now :)


