“A survey of 700 developers in mainland China revealed that
while the Windows operating system dominates the country’s software
development efforts, a significant proportion of programmers are
beginning to develop applications for Linux or plan to do so in the
next year.“The survey, released by research company Evans Data, paints a
different picture of the software development community in China
than in North America, where a smaller percentage of developers
said they plan to experiment with Linux applications in the coming
year.“About 27% of the developers polled in China said they are
writing Linux applications. Looking ahead, 66% said they would
‘probably’ or ‘absolutely’ write Linux applications within the next
year. Only 9% said they had no intention to write for the open
source operating system in the next year…”
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