Ruby on Rails is gaining momentum.
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| Since its first release by David Heinemeier Hansson in middle 2004,
| Ruby on Rails has enjoyed strong positive trend both in the open
| source and web development community. This trend can be easily
| noticed in Google Trend's statistics.
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http://www.railsonwave.it/2006/12/12/ruby-on-rails-is-gaining-momentum
Also a hot item these days:
Migrate Visual Studio C and C++ projects to Eclipse CDT
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| This article provides a brief step-by-step procedure for migrating
| Microsoft Visual Studio C/C++ (MSVC) projects to Eclipse.
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http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-ecl-vscdt/?ca=dgr-btw01C-C++Eclipse
Related:
Developers' use of open source Eclipse doubles
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| The adoption rate of the open source Eclipse integrated development
| environment has more than doubled in the Europe, the Middle East and
| Africa region, industry analysts have revealed.
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http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/12/12/220548/developers-use-of-open-source-eclipse-doubles.htm
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."
|
| 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
Open source booming in Asia
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| Open source code is now used by over 70 per cent of software
| developers in Asia, according to a new report.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2170549/open-source-grows-asia
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.
|
| [...]
|
| 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
TIOBE Programming Community Index for November 2006
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| Java 20.400%
| C 17.198%
| C++ 11.055%
| (Visual) Basic 9.470%
| PHP 9.209%
| Perl 6.228%
| Python 3.641%
| C# 3.023%
| JavaScript 2.310%
| Delphi 2.252%
| SAS 2.210%
| Ruby 1.717%
| PL/SQL 1.223%
| D 0.684%
| ABAP 0.637%
| Lisp/Scheme 0.586%
| COBOL 0.564%
| Ada 0.546%
| Pascal 0.516%
| Visual FoxPro 0.431%
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http://www.tiobe.com/index.htm?tiobe_index
101 Reasons Why Java is Better than .NET (Reloaded)
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| # Public Domain APIs - Any Java public apis are part of the public
| domain, .NET apis are proprietary and can open the door to a law suit.
|
| # Standard Library Source Code Availability - Java source code for the
| core libraries are available in every J2SDK distribution, .NET sources
| can only be seen by resorting to illegal means.
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http://www.helpdesk-software.ws/it/29-04-2004.htm
Google joins Eclipse Foundation
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| Google's Open Source Program Office (including Greg Stein, Chris
| DiBona, and Zaheda Bhorat) pulled the deal together between Google
| and the Eclipse Foundation in October.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=214
Five Years On: The Future of Eclipse
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| Even IBM admits it didn't expect its Eclipse open source project for
| building enterprise Java tools would grow as fast as it did.
|
| [...]
|
| By January of 2004, Eclipse was re-organized as an open source
| foundation and an independent organization.
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http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3642326
Eclipse Is Still Going Strong
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| In the intervening years, the Eclipse open-source development
| platform has grown well beyond the IDE space, branching out into
| areas such as reporting, modeling, AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript
| and XML) development, SOA (service-oriented architecture) tooling,
| RCP (rich-client platform) technology, team development, and
| support for other languages beyond Java.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20061107/tc_zd/193207
Eclipse: A Billion-Dollar Baby?
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| "Historically enterprise software has been sold through [a]
| direct salesforce channel. ... We're starting to see success
| in open source software products in areas which have been
| traditionally the realm of the direct salesforce. Those
| environments or those products have very, very low cost of
| sales, so as customers get more used to that, I think that
| over time, there are going to be fewer and fewer software
| salesmen."
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/53621.html
Eclipse Adoption on The Rise
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| With the EclipseWorld conference kicking off this week in Boston,
| it would be easy to think the open source Java tools project is
| everywhere.
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http://www.devxnews.com/article.php/3630071
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