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By amphi
via kaioa.com
Submitted: Dec 06 / 03:47

A snapshot of Java's version penetration. Take a look if you aren't sure which version to use for you next applet.
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puredanger replied ago:

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Up vote just for use of the word "penetration"

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amphi replied ago:

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As weird as it sounds... it's the proper term (yes, really!).

Adobe also did it:
http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/version_penetration.html

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mvonballmo replied ago:

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This is useful for general web projects, but a lot of Java server development is for enterprise environments, no? It would be interesting to see what the desired/required Java version is for those projects. I suspect that 1.6 penetration for those types of projects is *much* lower and even 1.5 penetration isn't that high (at least in my experience).

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amphi replied ago:

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Enterprise is completely different. There you either have the freedom to choose or the requirement to be compatible to a specific version. In some cases it's as bad as 1.3.

Creating a semi-meaningful statistic for that appears to be pretty difficult. I guess you would need some kind of massive survey.

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