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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. Hmmm... by El+Lobo · · Score: 0, Troll
    Stop the horses cowboy. The majority of the developers for Linuzzzzzzzzzzzz are writing multiplatform applications. Which of course include Windows. And OsX and whatever.

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    It's time to realise that Abble's products are the biggest abomination these days. Just say NO to the dumb iAbble way!!
  2. Statistics by E.+Edward+Grey · · Score: 0, Troll

    Another important percentage of which you should take note:

    The percentage of developers who make their living developing for Linux holds steady at 0%.

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    ---don't make me break out my red pen.