Linux news

2007 07 03

Research: Windows Devs Are Escaping Microsoft, Come to GNU/Linux!!

Survey: Windows loses ground with developers

Linux gaining share as the number of developers targeting Windows falls 12 percent, Evans Data says

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Let us welcome them (hopefully without Mono). This is wonderful news and it marks a continuing trend which validates the fact that Microsoft has alienated its supporters. Recent: Linux contributor base broadens

With more companies funding Linux work, the core hackers now delegate 70% of the coding

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Linux Summit: Forget Microsoft. Let's Get Back To Development

"We add 2,000 lines of code a day to the Linux kernel. We work on 2,800 lines of code a day. I've never seen the pace of change that Linux has shown," said kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman, citing the accelerated pace on the open source operating system.

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Related: Developers Embrace Java, Drop Visual Basic

Use of Visual Basic has dropped 35% since the spring, says a poll of more than 430 North American developers done by research company Evans Data. [...] Developers have abandoned Microsoft's Visual Basic in droves during the last six months, and they're using Java more than any other development language, according to a recently published survey.

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Study: Developers Favor Linux

"Regardless of what kind of developer you are, you're still trying to make a living, and target the operating system that?s controlling the market." However, in the most recent survey, the developers' forecast of their target platform has changed. For the first time, these developers said that in the next 12 to 18 months they expect to be developing more Linux apps than Windows apps.

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