Today, in a discussion on M$ vs Java, I got the obvious question "How many Java developers are there currently in Belgium?".
I was ashamed that, even being part of BeJUG steering, I had to admid I had no idea at all.

Do you have any information on this? Is there any info source that could help me answering this?
An old article tells me Sun wants to raise the number of java developers from 3 to 10 million world-wide. What is the current status on this?

I could make an estimate based on the total number of BeJUG members and the estimate percentage of the java community that we reach in Belgium. But how do I determine the latter? In my company we are 35 developers of which 4 are BeJUG members. So, does BeJUG reach 10% of the community?

I know some companies doing java development (j2se, j2ee, j2me, jsp, ...) having only 1 BeJUG member, or even no BeJUG members at all . So does BeJUG reach 5% or 2% of the community?

YOU can help me in making my estimate of the total nr of java developers in Belgium more correct!!
Please write down, in comment to this Blog, the total number of java developers in your company, and the number of BeJUG members among them! If you know other companies with java developers, try to estimate their ratio too - and list it in your comment (you can ommit company names if you want too – I don't want to use this feedback for BeJUG marketing).

Or, ultimately, if you know an information source that can give me the correct numbers, send me the URL