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Jun. 2, 2009

The Eclipse Foundation, a non-profit member-supported organization that hosts the Eclipse projects, recently announced its Community Survey 2009 in The Open Source Developer Report, and it now suggests that Linux has become the most common deployment platform in the IT developer community.

There is a definite shift from Microsoft's Windows to the Linux platform for their desktop development operating system.

Overall, about 27 per cent of respondents cited Linux as their primary desktop operating system, representing a 7 percentage point increase from less than two years ago.

Though Windows is still the dominant development OS at 64 per cent, it has decreased 10 percentage points from 2007.

The Eclipse Foundation view these numbers as significant.

The most popular Linux variant of choice among developers is Ubuntu, which accounts for over half of Linux respondents. Mac OS X has increased to 6.9 per cent from 3.5 per cent in 2007, said the report.

Eclipse IDEs are the most popular primary development environments among respondents, it added. Eclipse JDT has about 60 per cent, Eclipse PHP Development Tools with 12.6 per cent and C/C++ Developer Tools with about 6.3 per cent.

'Ant' was the most popular build management tool with the usage of 33.4 per cent, followed by Maven (18 per cent) and Hudson (9.1 per cent). More than 20 per cent claimed they did not use a build management tool at all.

Source code management (SCM), change management (CM) and build management (BM) are important tools for most developers, added the report. The dominant Source Code Management (SCM) system used by 57.5 per cent developers is Subversion, followed by CVS which comes in at 20 per cent.

The survey also suggested that a greater number of organizations today are moving towards the open source software model. In fact, about 48 per cent of respondents reported the open source model for their company, compared to just 37 percent in 2007.

About 15.6 percent stated that their company has a business model reliant on open source, versus only 10 per cent in 2007.

The survey was promoted to individuals who visited the eclipse.org home page during the period from April 14 to May 15.

In total 1,481 developers responded to the survey and 1,365 completed it entirely.

Overall, MySQL and Oracle were the dominant databases on which a total of 55.2 per cent of DB applications are deployed every day.

Source: The Eclipse Foundation.

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