IDE Usage Study

Jeffrey Hammond from Forrester Research has just released a new report on IDE Usage. For those people that are Forrester clients, it is an interesting read. You can also purchase the report but it is $995.

Eclipse continues to be one of the primary IDEs and is dominate with Java developers. Forrester reports ‘70% of Java developers use either Eclipse or an Eclipse-based IDE.’

Nice to see.

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3 Responses to “IDE Usage Study”

  1. maarten Says:
    February 15, 2008 at 3:40 pm

    Interesting!

    … while .NET developers are more interested in a vibrant online developer community.

    I wonder: Why do they value the “vibrant online community” so much? To get help maybe?

  2. Suresh Krishna Says:
    February 20, 2008 at 7:07 pm

    very cool to see this number “70%”. I hope we can get the report for free :(
    Would be great to show it to the management who is skeptical about the Eclipse IDE adoption.

  3. Ian Skerrett Says:
    February 20, 2008 at 8:27 pm

    Suresh,

    Lots more market research data to show robust Eclipse adoption is located on the Eclipse wiki.
    http://wiki.eclipse.org/Marketing_Resources#Research_Papers_of_Interest

    Not sure how anyone could be skeptical of Eclipse adoption. :-)

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