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Forces Driving Open Source Enterprise IT Applications to the Cloud

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 24, 2013

Developers are the ones who have been driving the revolution. They love working in the cloud, and management listens to them after seeing the multitude of the benefits associated with delivering applications via the cloud. And it is experienced developers who are leading the charge. Forrester’s survey from earlier this year, Forrsights Developer Survey, Q1 2013, notes that 71 percent of cloud developers have at least six years of programming experience.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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