IBM Upgrades Rational Development Tools, Beefs Up Support For Open Source
Eclipse
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| IBM updated its Rational 7.0 desktop development tools on Tuesday,
| and for the first time offered commercial support for the open
| source Eclipse programmer's workbench as well as the Rational
| tools that plug into it.
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| Java is deeply entrenched in the enterprise and continues to
| attract programmers. Some 45% of programmers used Java at the
| end of November, compared with 40% using C and C++ and 32% using
| C#, Microsoft's answer to Java, according to a survey by Evans
| Data. Visual Basic, once Microsoft's most popular language, fell
| in usage 35% since the spring.
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| "Microsoft has dominated languages since the early 1990s but we
| are seeing much more parity now," said John Andrews, president of
| Evans Data.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20061206/tc_cmp/196601778
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Developers Embrace Java, Drop Visual Basic
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| Use of Visual Basic has dropped 35% since the spring, says a
| poll of more than 430 North American developers done by research
| company Evans Data.
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| [...]
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| Developers have abandoned Microsoft's Visual Basic in droves
| during the last six months, and they're using Java more than any
| other development language, according to a recently published
| survey.
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http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196600515
Study: Developers Favor Linux
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| "Regardless of what kind of developer you are, you're still trying to
| make a living, and target the operating system that?s controlling the
| market."
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| However, in the most recent survey, the developers' forecast of their
| target platform has changed. For the first time, these developers said
| that in the next 12 to 18 months they expect to be developing more Linux
| apps than Windows apps.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3645766
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