Eclipse: Developers growing more fond of desktop Linux
San Francisco – Developers in the Eclipse open source community are becoming more inclined to use Linux as their primary desktop operating system, according to a report released Monday by the Eclipse Foundation that gauges sentiments on software development issues.
Linux also is popular for application deployments, the report reveals. But most in the Eclipse community are not sold yet on cloud computing.
[ InfoWorld Editor in Chief Eric Knorr discusses how desktop virtualization could boost desktop Linux, which overall has floundered. ]
Entitled "The Open Source Developer Report," the document features results of the Eclipse 2010 community survey, performed from mid-April to mid-May and assessing responses from 1,948 individuals. More than half of respondents -- 52.5 percent -- were programmers.
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Linux also is popular for application deployments, the report reveals. But most in the Eclipse community are not sold yet on cloud computing.
[ InfoWorld Editor in Chief Eric Knorr discusses how desktop virtualization could boost desktop Linux, which overall has floundered. ]
Entitled "The Open Source Developer Report," the document features results of the Eclipse 2010 community survey, performed from mid-April to mid-May and assessing responses from 1,948 individuals. More than half of respondents -- 52.5 percent -- were programmers.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20100607/tc_infoworld/126476;_ylt=AlAU4VEsZbDPJr4ZGqNgQCQjtBAF;_ylu=X3oDMTJqcWJpZDd1BGFzc2V0A2luZm93b3JsZC8yMDEwMDYwNy8xMjY0NzYEcG9zAzExBHNlYwN5bl9hcnRpY2xlX3N1bW1hcnlfbGlzdARzbGsDZWNsaXBzZWRldmVs
