Developers take a shift from Windows to Linux – CIOL News Reports
by corkie on Jun.02, 2009, under Linux
According to a recent survey by The Eclipse Foundation, Ubuntu is the most popular choice for developers
Monday, June 01, 2009
BANGALORE, INDIA: The Eclipse Foundation, a not-for-profit, member supported corporation that hosts the Eclipse projects, recently announced the Eclipse Community Survey 2009 in The Open Source Developer Report.
According to the report, Linux has become the most common deployment platform for the developer community. There is a shift from the Microsoft Windows to Linux and Mac OSX for their desktop development operating system.
26.9 per cent of respondents cite Linux as primary desktop operating system, representing a 7 percentage point increase from 2007. Though Windows is still the dominant development OS at 64 per cent, it has decreased 10 percentage points from 2007.
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