Eclipse Challenges Visual Studio.NET in EMEA Region, Latest Evans Data Report Shows

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Monday, December 11, 2006; 09:24 AM

The adoption rate of Eclipse has more than doubled in the EMEA region, making it the first IDE to challenge Microsoft Visual Studio.NET among developers there, according to the recently released Evans Data EMEA Development Survey. Fully a third of developers now use Eclipse. Additionally use of the set of plug-ins needed to develop rich-client applications, collectively known as the Eclipse Rich Client Platform subset, is expected to triple within the next two years.

"We are very pleased with the results of Evans Data's research, which confirms Eclipse's growth globally as the platform of choice for developers," stated Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. "We are particularly happy with the continued momentum of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform."

“These results are reflective of the overall market adoption we are seeing for Eclipse adoption globally,“ John Andrews, President, Evans Data added. “The addition of the Rich Client Platform provides the developers a great advantage being able to write an application once and it will run on Windows, Mac OS and Linux.”

Other findings from the Winter 2006 survey of almost 400 developers in the EMEA region:

• Forty-two percent of EMEA developers use XML as a component of their development efforts.
• AJAX demonstrates the highest growth rate (+12%) amongst web service standards, consistent with XML expansion.
• Java frameworks are considered the most important Java feature, although refactoring emphasis more than doubled during the period, suggesting added focus on coding efficiency associated with Java development efforts.

Evans Data Corporation (www.evansdata.com) provides regularly updated IT industry market intelligence based on in-depth surveys of the global developer population. Evans’ syndicated research includes surveys focused on developers in a wide variety of subjects.