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Windows Loses Ground With Developers

Posted by kdawson on from the rising-tide-lifts-all-penguins dept.

An anonymous reader notes that InfoWorld is covering a survey of North American developers that claims that Linux is gaining share as the number of developers targeting Windows fell 11 percent over the last year. Evans Data has been conducting these surveys of client, server, and Web developers since 1998. Evans Data says that the arrival of Windows Vista likely only kept the numbers from being even worse. The big gainer wasn't developing for a Web platform, but rather for Linux and "nontraditional client devices." Windows is still dominant, with 65% of developers writing code for this platform. Linux stands at almost 12%, up from 8% a year earlier. The article says that Evans Data collected information on Mac and Unix development but did not include them in this year's report.

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  1. Ob.. by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    ObSweatTardLink: Developer Music Video

    Awesome.

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    1. Re:Ob.. by Captain+Splendid · · Score: 3, Funny

      Beat me to it. I was going to say the headline should say:

      Windows Loses Ground With Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers,Developers...developers...developers...

      DEVELOPERS!

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    2. Re:Ob.. by misleb · · Score: 2, Funny

      Actually, it was only an 11% drop, so it would just be the "Developers developers developers developers" that they lost ground with. Don't exaggerate the data!

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    3. Re:Ob.. by Air-conditioned+cowh · · Score: 2, Funny

      Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, .... Developer.... Where's everyone gone????

  2. Java is... by teknopurge · · Score: 2, Funny

    ubiquitous, even on mobile[linux] devices. As a Java Application Architect I care very little about what my infrastructure is, so long as it's not WebSphere. Mobile linux and Netbeans work _very_ nicely together. I can even whisper sweet nothings to Active Directory with my LDAP powers.

    Give me the Toaster-based BSD and a jre higher than 1.4.2 and get out of my way!

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  3. New Ballmer Chant by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: 5, Funny

    Developers! Developers! Developers! De-- hey where'd everybody go?

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    1. Re:New Ballmer Chant by feedmetrolls · · Score: 3, Funny

      Now what am I going to do with all these chairs?

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  4. Re:Linux is not another Windows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    VisualWorks Smalltalk. More powerful IDE than Visual Studio and cross platform across windows, linux, unix, mac, etc..etc..

    Last time I used VisualStudio (2 years ago) my thought was "not bad, they're finally up to mid 90s Smalltalk standards for IDE productivity"