Business Wire: 1.1 Million-Plus Developers in North America Now Working on Open Source Projects

“There are more than 1.1 million developers in North America
spending at least some of their time working on Open Source
development projects, according to Evans Data Corporation’s new
North American Developer Population Study.

“‘The Population Study is a breakthrough survey for Evans Data
because for the first time we’re able to estimate the actual number
of professional software developers in North America who spend time
working with different architectures, technologies, languages and
development tools. For example, EDC is the first organization to
estimate that 1.1 million developers spend some of their time
working on open source development projects,’ said Brian Cooper,
Evans’ research director. ‘The value in this survey is the
capability of organizations to accurately estimate the size of
their target markets before rolling out new products and
services…’

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