One of the benefits of inter-operable software solutions is that functionality can be shared between solutions. This operability of course depends on whether a certain language is supported, and thus success in future (as always) will depend on one language establishing itself as a standard. This is not always the language that is the most versatile just as the Beta vs VHS battle of the 1980s and the Apple vs Microsoft battle of the 1990s demonstrated. I think in the open source arena, its more likely to be the OS platform that reaches out to the broader market with user-friendly features that is doing to be the winner. At this point there is no clear leader. In the content management area, Drupal and Joomla seem to be tied.
Functionality will continue to rest upon the capacity of these languages to absorb new innovations in other languages whether they support other languages or just morph their functions.
------------------------------------------Andrew Sheldon www.sheldonthinks.com
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