How you go about developing software for mobile devices depends primarily on which platform you intend to develop. While there are many large players competing in the the mobile platform market, there doesn’t seem to be an obvious winner.

The EvansData APAC Development Survey 2008, v2 shows that 88% of developers use some dynamic language some of the time and over 40% use one more than half of the time. Javascript is by far the most widely used dynamic language, although 45% of developers in Asia who use dynamic languages now use PHP in some of their projects. Perl is expected to decline and use of Actionscript, the basis for Flash development, will increase.

The 3rd IndicThreads.com Conference on Java Technology kicked off at Sun-n-Sand Pune. The meet started off with Mr. Harshad Oak giving a general introduction and then taken up by Mr. Ganesh Natarajan (Chairman NASSCOM, CEO Zensar Technologies) where he talked about “How the Indian IT-BPO industry is facing the current global uncertainties”, highlighting the ways how the downfall can be handled by belt tightening, salary moderation, expanding to 2/3 tier cities, domestic market, creating new products; tackling new verticals, end-to-end service. and by not being just US centric.