[Tech Talks] IT Celebrities: Industry Oriented

Mohamed ElawadyComputer Science Department

Suez Canal University

“TV will never be a serious competitor for radio because people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen;

the average American family hasn't time for it.”

1939

Top 10 Programming Languages

Top 10 Programming LanguagesPositionMay 2011

PositionMay 2010

Programming LanguageRatingsMay 2011

DeltaMay 2010

1 2 Java 18.160% +0.20%

2 1 C 16.170% -2.02%

3 3 C++ 9.146% -1.23%

4 6 C# 7.539% +2.76%

5 4 PHP 6.508% -2.57%

6 10 Objective-C 5.010% +2.65%

7 7 Python 4.583% +0.49%

8 5 (Visual) Basic 4.496% -1.16%

9 8 Perl 2.231% -1.05%

10 11 Ruby 1.421% -0.67%

TIOBE programming community index

Most Influential People In Programming

Write once, run anywhere System programming, CGI Games, hardware design“C++ and Java, say, are

presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be

around.”

“C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don't have

ideas about how to express them, C++ doesn't offer much help”

“Java Is Under No Serious Threat From PHP, Ruby or C#”

Software components

“I value simplicity over everything; I always look for

simplicity”

HejlsbergLerdorf

FB, Wikipedia

“I've never thought of PHP as more than a simple tool to

solve problems”

Brad Cox

“Software is a place where dreams are planted and nightmares

harvested”

Most Influential People In Programming

Google Apps, ArcGIS TMTOWTDI Twitter, meta-exploit

““I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can

be perfect for everyone”

Web client-side processing

“JavaScript is x86 for the web”

Win GUI Apps

“First axiom of user interface design: Don't make the user

look stupid”

“Go is not meant to innovate programming theory. It’s meant to innovate programming practice”

“If you're talking about Java, Python is about the best fit you can get

amongst all the other languages.”

“Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated

but there are more shortcuts.”

Matsumoto

CooperBrendan

“If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent.”

Edsger W. DijkstraComputer Scientist

Top 10 Software Companies

RANK COMPANY COUNTRYSALES ($BIL)

PROFITS ($BIL)

ASSETS ($BIL)

MARKET VALUE ($BIL)

1 IBM United States 95.76 13.43 109.02 167.01

2 Microsoft United States 58.69 16.26 82.10 254.52

3 Oracle United States 23.23 5.80 53.83 123.98

4 Google United States 23.65 6.52 40.50 169.38

5 SAP Germany 15.29 2.56 18.73 55.27

6 Accenture Ireland 22.45 1.55 12.18 28.62

7 Computer Sciences United States 16.00 0.94 16.20 8.06

8 Yahoo United States 6.46 0.60 14.94 22.11

9 Tata Consultancy Svcs India 5.41 1.02 4.45 32.31

10 CA United States 4.29 0.74 11.39 11.87

Forbes.com


Software Magazine

RANK COMPANYREVENUE

($MILLION)REVENUE GROWTH

EMP. SOFTWARE BUSINESS SECTOR

1IBM

$74,934.00 - 7.5% 437,776 Middleware/App Server/Web Server

2 Microsoft Corporation $50,820.00 - 2.8% 93,000 Operating Systems

3Hewlett-Packard

Company$38,265.00 50.5% 304,000 System Integration Services

4 Oracle Corporation $23,252.00 3.7% 86,000 Database/Data Management

5 Accenture $21,576.90 - 7.7% 177,000 System Integration Services

6Computer Sciences

Corporation$16,739.90 1.5% 92,000 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

7 SAP AG $15,235.00 - 4.8% 48,471 Enterprise Application/Data Integration

8 EMC Corporation $14,025.90 63.6% 43,200 Information Management

9 Hitachi $12,253.80 - 7.0% 359,746 Infrastructure/Network Management

10Lockheed Martin

Corporation$12,130.00 4.5% 140,000 Vertical Industry Applications


1977Larry Ellison

“Can't break it, can't break in”

1972

“Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing”

Henning

Kagermann


1975

Bill Gates

“640K ought to be enough for anybody” 1981

1911

“We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't

even have to have a good product.”

Thomas J.

Watson


1998

Larry & Sergey

“I’m Feeling Lucky” Button

1995

Yang & Filo

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”

Thomas A. EdisonInventor & Scientist

Top 10 Websites

Rank Site Unique VisitorsMonthly Change

Yearly Change

1 google.com 150,132,536 -0.29% -0.34%

2 facebook.com 137,917,539 -2.00% 13.33%

3 yahoo.com 137,281,886 -0.11% 2.02%

4 youtube.com 123,404,304 0.00% 22.42%

5 bing.com 86,836,886 -3.51% 48.43%

6 wikipedia.org 81,157,591 -2.31% 6.01%

7 amazon.com 74,978,780 -1.29% 12.71%

8 msn.com 73,799,209 -2.74% 8.95%

9 live.com 72,369,485 -4.69% 4.21%

10 ebay.com 67,372,294 -1.65% -10.04%

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people

who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't

find them, make them.”

George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist

Popular IT Companies(EGYPT)

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Popular IT Careers

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“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write,

but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”

Alvin TofflerSociologist & Futurist

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