“According to Ian Skerrit, Director of Marketing at the Eclipse
Foundation, 64 percent of Eclipse users surveyed use Windows as
their development platform. Linux is used 27 percent of the time as
a development platform. Compare this to the 2007 survey results,
when Windows came in at 74 percent for the development platform and
Linux was at 20 percent, and you can see the shift towards
Linux.“More tellingly, Linux is now the leading deployment platform at
43 percent and Windows has dropped to 41 percent among Eclipse
users surveyed.“”The developer community appears to be moving to Linux for
their desktop development environment and the Linux server
deployment platform continues to grow,” Skerrit wrote on his blog,
“Ubuntu and Red Hat appear to be the main beneficiaries of this
movement. Microsoft not so much.”
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