I think the definition of 'winning' people use around here is, if start ups think its a trendy technology to use. So you will see all these new companies stop u

I think the definition of 'winning' people use around here is, if start ups think its a trendy technology to use. So you will see all these new companies stop using a particular language, and then when some conference happens you will see talks around the older technologies have dried out, while people are giving talks on the newer set of technologies. Its then when you see articles/rants/blog posts on the lines 'Whatever happened to X which was famous $current_years - 5 years back?' Please note all the focus is around the new technology. Some one is writing a new library around this new DB technology some one is using and is writing about it. Some one just gave a talk on how some scalability problem was solved by a specific feature in the language. Some one just talked about how testing got easier, some one writes about how maintenance efforts got reduced because of a new way in which language deals with type declarations, Or some programming forum is full of questions and the Google auto suggests can tell you your question as you are typing it. Meanwhile some where in a MegaCorp, your maven can't see beyond the company in house repo. And using a different library takes 3 months of permission cycles. People sitting in there don't get interview calls and hear about people saying that the old technology isn't hip any more. Only thing that is buying Java some time is the large quantities of enterprise code, which no one has the money to replace.