Q406 computer books sales
Tim O'Reilly has posted the second part of the Q406 computer books sales report, comparing Q4 2006 with Q4 2005. This is for top selling computer-related books sales in the US, not just O'Reilly titles. Always interesting as an indicator of trends.
Here the highlights for me...The following compares Q4 2006 to Q4 2005:
- Overall 'computer' book sales up 4%
- Databases category up 6% (I can't see the detailed breakdown in the enterprise db space other than SQL Server is up and Oracle is down - hope Tim provides an update on this later)
- Programming languages: Java down 14%, '.NET languages' up 34%, Ruby up 53%, Python up 37%, Perl down 23%,
- Web design and development category up 7%
- Ajax up 55%, Rails up 43%
- Business apps category down 8%: 'crm general' up 256%, collaboration down 23%, Sharepoint down 24% (Sharepoint Server 2007 coming)
- Windows XP down 33% (Vista effect I suspect...)