Industry Observer: Job Trend Leader's

Here is an interesting analysis of job trends for three major Rules Engines for Last year. (this is a analyis of jobs posted on internet with the keywords mentioned in the charts - source is indeed.com)

Looking at the charts it seems like Pega is gaining marketshare overall in the job market and ILOG is losing. It is quite sad that ILOG does not publish its numbers in comparision to BPMS vendors , while it does keep on claiming that it is 800 pound gorilla in the BRMS space.

Note that the BRMS space itself might be 5 by 5 square foot space. After 20 years of effort and 250 ISV's its revenue is 100Million only.No wonder its market cap is only a tiny fraction of that of its customers.

I will publish a post in the coming weeks highligthing the problems with ILOG and its business model Look out for it.

A few other charts of interest.

The Java technology chart is not surprising to me. Spring is the clearly the choice for application development and I am not suprised at the trendlines. The steady decline of EJB's and the steady rise of hibernate are also not surprising.

The Chart of particular interest to me is the GWT chart. Note the sudden burst in job postings for GWT in Jan 2007. This is a technology to look out for.I will not be surprised if GWT takes over struts in an years times.