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[News] Entrepreneurs Leave Microsoft Development Camp, Choose Open Source Software

  • Subject: [News] Entrepreneurs Leave Microsoft Development Camp, Choose Open Source Software
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:15:15 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Serial entrepreneurs find OSS "a no-brainer"

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| Together, Isaac Garcia and Arnulf Hsu have launched several successful 
| businesses, including two that were eventually purchased by CNET. Garcia and 
| Hsu were firmly in the Microsoft development camp, but recently they noticed 
| what they call the increasing maturity of open source software. They decided 
| to launch their latest endeavor, CentralDesktop.com (CD), using an open 
| source platform.     
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http://www.linux.com/feature/116352


Recent:

Survey: Windows loses ground with developers

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| Linux gaining share as the number of developers targeting Windows falls 
| 12 percent, Evans Data says
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/07/02/mswindows-share_1.html


Related:

Developers Embrace Java, Drop Visual Basic 

,----[ Quote ]
| 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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