Flex is on fire - the book market says

Posted by Charles | May 14, 2007 .

O’Reilly (don’t know who he is, shame on you) has been using O’Reilly book sales data to track technology trend. last year, the biggest winner is Ruby on Rails.

Now what is the strongest new product from O’Reilly? Programming Flex 2!

O’reilly’s sales rep for Amazon, wrote about Programming Flex 2:

Amazon released backorders from the accumulating pre-orders last week. Not as big as Harry Potter yet but there is hope. The last time we had this excitement was back in March 2005 when Make volume 1 debuted. Before that, it was Programming the Perl DBI back in February 2000, surpassing Grisham at the time which was at the top of the overall best sellers then.

At the Web Design and Development area of O’Reilly’s book sales tracking for the week of this new book release, Flex is as large as JavaScript and larger than Ruby on Rails, up 344% over the week before! Just amazing to see Flex is finally taking off.