Survey: Linux Draws Windows Developers 27
Twintop writes "According to this story on eWEEK, more Linux developers are coming from Windows backgrounds than from UNIX backgrounds according to a recent study by Evans Data. The original story and the actual survey from Evans Data is available as well."
Not scientific (Score:4, Insightful)
Of course, it would be far more interesting to measure what percentage of Windows developers have switched to Linux development, than what percentage of Linux developers switched from Windows.
Re:Not scientific (Score:2, Funny)
Development Tools Need Work? I don't think so . . (Score:4, Informative)
If you look at the actual data [evansdata.com], it looks more like no more than 3.8% said that the compilers "need work." 90% rated the compilers as "adequate" or better, and 70% rated the compilers as "very good" or better.
To me, it looks like they just drew a conclusion that they wanted to draw instead of actually looking at the data.
Re:Development Tools Need Work? I don't think so . (Score:1)
Re:Development Tools Need Work? I don't think so . (Score:2)
How many since Monday? (Score:4, Funny)
Linux, *bsd, etc (Score:4, Insightful)
I think developers coming from a Unix background would probably look at *all* the choices with free *nixes
Linux gets a ton of media in the mainstream market where wintel developers work. The *BSDs dont get that kind of exposure, so those in the *nix know (ie, Unix developers) are going to look at all available free *nix flavours. I'd be willing to bet that Linux isn't as attractive to those whove been coding on Unix as those who've been coding on wintel.
I didn't like Linux dev stuff when I tried it. (Score:1)
I plan to have another look in the very near future but I suspect I've been spoilt by MS Developer Studio and my Universal subscription
What would be truly cool would be an integrated dev. toolset (like devstudio) that allowed me to develop software for both Linux and Windows - anyone know of such a tool, either free or commercial?
Re:I didn't like Linux dev stuff when I tried it. (Score:4, Informative)
Try Borland's [borland.com] C++ Builder/Delphi (Windows) and Kylix (linux) products.
Re:I didn't like Linux dev stuff when I tried it. (Score:2)
Sure. A couple of good options are Lispworks [lispworks.com] and VisualWorks [cincom.com]
Yeah, but (Score:2, Insightful)
Text editor (Score:2, Informative)
I don't have any relation with nediters. I'm just a happy user.
Re:Text editor (Score:1)
Re:Text editor (Score:1)
Well I develop for Linux and also for Windows, OSX (Score:4, Interesting)
I started developing for 0.98 kernel using Slackware in '96 (i think) and was very impressed at the free product that was linux at that time.
Now every time I download an ISO and install it (various distros) it amazes me how far linux has come. I'm running RH 7.3 currently but 8.0 looks cool (I'm one of three people that actually likes the unified desktop).
'96: programming dot clocks to try to get XWindows to run on my video card, text install, boot disk req'd
'03: cd based install, almost completely grandmafied (my word for grandma can use it), excellent 3rd Party Software (Oracle, Borland, StarOffice,
I kind of miss those InfoMagic CD sets for $15 that had redhat, debian, slackware, suse, and the several cd's of docs. Those were the days.
Re:Well I develop for Linux and also for Windows, (Score:1)
How Timely (Score:4, Interesting)
I told them I didn't do enought windows development to justify the cost anymore, which is true enough.
I got the impression that the salesperson had ticked that box a few times recently...
If anyone's like me... (Score:1)
Until then, I'd never heard of Linux. I knew about the existence of UNIX in general, but the small firms I worked for couldn't afford it and then when I worked for larger software houses, I was pigeon-holed into the Windows development area so got no exposure to UNIX. I just recall bigoted sysadmins compl