Well, even though he was completely lambasted and lampooned by "Developers Developers Developers", he wasn't wrong.
We see the 85%/15% split in programming and developing as well. When something is just too good to pass up, a lot of us switch over and start working on the next hotness. Sometimes, those things switch and become the embedded tech you have to learn to get in there. Arduino is one such thing. As is C, and Linux. For DB's, it used to be MySQL, and now PostgreSQL, and large heapings of good/bad for MongoDB and Redis.
Where MS lost for a long time, was the insane amount of bad will towards protocol obfuscation, protocol "extensions" that break IETF protocols, and of course the monopolist behaviors that they were found guilty for.
The problem is they ran away people who'd develop for their platform, and make crazy awesome things. Can't say I blame them. I'm one who ran, and really haven't looked back. And recently, we had a "party" at work, because I was able to wipe the last 2 windows boxes we had. To Linux.
We see the 85%/15% split in programming and developing as well. When something is just too good to pass up, a lot of us switch over and start working on the next hotness. Sometimes, those things switch and become the embedded tech you have to learn to get in there. Arduino is one such thing. As is C, and Linux. For DB's, it used to be MySQL, and now PostgreSQL, and large heapings of good/bad for MongoDB and Redis.
Where MS lost for a long time, was the insane amount of bad will towards protocol obfuscation, protocol "extensions" that break IETF protocols, and of course the monopolist behaviors that they were found guilty for.
The problem is they ran away people who'd develop for their platform, and make crazy awesome things. Can't say I blame them. I'm one who ran, and really haven't looked back. And recently, we had a "party" at work, because I was able to wipe the last 2 windows boxes we had. To Linux.