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."

Comments

Well I develop for Linux and also for Windows, OSX

[BoomerSooner]

etc.

I started developing for 0.98 kernel using Slackware in '96 (i think) and was very impressed at the free product that was linux at that time.

Now every time I download an ISO and install it (various distros) it amazes me how far linux has come. I'm running RH 7.3 currently but 8.0 looks cool (I'm one of three people that actually likes the unified desktop).

'96: programming dot clocks to try to get XWindows to run on my video card, text install, boot disk req'd

'03: cd based install, almost completely grandmafied (my word for grandma can use it), excellent 3rd Party Software (Oracle, Borland, StarOffice, ...)

I kind of miss those InfoMagic CD sets for $15 that had redhat, debian, slackware, suse, and the several cd's of docs. Those were the days.

How Timely

[bLanark]

I got a call from Microsoft today, asking if I was going to renew my MSDN subscription.

I told them I didn't do enought windows development to justify the cost anymore, which is true enough.

I got the impression that the salesperson had ticked that box a few times recently...