Survey: Linux Draws Windows Developers

Twintop writes "According to this story on eWEEK, more Linux developers are coming from Windows backgrounds than from UNIX backgrounds according to a recent study by Evans Data. The original story and the actual survey from Evans Data is available as well."

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Not scientific

[ClosedSource]

The problem is that surveys like this aren't scientific polls, so you can't take the results too seriously.

Of course, it would be far more interesting to measure what percentage of Windows developers have switched to Linux development, than what percentage of Linux developers switched from Windows.

Linux, *bsd, etc

[SirSlud]

Isn't Linux the posterchild OS for *nix arches?

I think developers coming from a Unix background would probably look at *all* the choices with free *nixes .. and many would be more interested in developing towards more centrally planned OSes like the BSDs ...

Linux gets a ton of media in the mainstream market where wintel developers work. The *BSDs dont get that kind of exposure, so those in the *nix know (ie, Unix developers) are going to look at all available free *nix flavours. I'd be willing to bet that Linux isn't as attractive to those whove been coding on Unix as those who've been coding on wintel.

Yeah, but

[BortQ]

This could probably be explained by the fact that there are far more windows developers out there. A small percent of them prolly add up to a big number.