Can Linux Get a Lift From Eclipse?
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| Eager to shed its reputation as a tool just for Java developers, Eclipse has
| quickly embraced newer languages such as PHP, Python and Ruby—as well as
| older ones like Ada, COBOL and C. But when it comes to enabling native Linux
| development, Eclipse isn’t moving as fast. It’s not uncommon for applications
| originating from Eclipse to target Linux servers...
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http://www.sda-india.com/sda_india/psecom,id,22,site_layout,sdaindia,news,21957,p,0.html
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Building from Source Crucial for Linux to Adopt Eclipse
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| In the ongoing talk about how the different Linux distros and the Russian
| Academy of Science are starting to make Eclipse the Visual Studio for Linux,
| the Linux guys seem well on their way to making Eclipse the Linux IDE. Ian
| Skerret say the Linux Distros Project has been great catalyst for this and I
| think CDT and the PDT project are helping drive this forward too.
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http://www.sda-india.com/sda_india/psecom,id,102,site_layout,sdaindia,news,19464,p,0.html#756128750769744438
Linux developers considering move to Eclipse
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| At the recent Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, it was decided to
| start making Eclipse, the open-source development platform, the Visual
| Studio for Linux.
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS4521261966.html
Eclipse Ships Largest-Ever Release of Leading Open Source Software Development
Platform
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| Europa features 21 Eclipse projects for software developers and is more
| than double the size of last year's record-setting release.
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http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,129556.shtml
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
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
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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| 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
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
Linux contributor base broadens
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| With more companies funding Linux work, the core hackers now delegate
| 70% of the coding
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/062807-linux-contributor-base.html
Linux Summit: Forget Microsoft. Let's Get Back To Development
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| "We add 2,000 lines of code a day to the Linux kernel. We work on
| 2,800 lines of code a day. I've never seen the pace of change that
| Linux has shown," said kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman, citing
| the accelerated pace on the open source operating system.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199904052
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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