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.
Ian Skerrett 
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?
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.
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. 🙂