How Adobe started winning developers
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| There's a post over on Scoble's blog that takes on the topic of
| developers and how Microsoft is hemmoraging them while Adobe
| seems to be gaining them.
|
| [...]
|
| WPF is a good product, but as Scoble notes, more developers are moving to
| Mac and the lack of support (both for the platform and any IDE) is killing
| Microsoft.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=276
Related:
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
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
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