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Developers shifting target from Windows

...Windows operating system, a survey has revealed. According to analysts at the Evans Data Corporation research house, 64.8 percent of North American developers are... Read more

3 July, 2007 by David Meyer

Embarcadero aims to attract Eclipse SQL developers

...somewhat regular basis," said John F Andrews, president of market research firm Evans Data Corporation. "According to research we conducted in September 2007, SQL is... Read more

18 March, 2008 by Adrian Bridgwater

C++ creator: it's bigger than ever

...Mars Rover autonomous driving system, according to Stroustrup. Data from analyst firm Evans Data Corporation, which carries out regular developer surveys, appears to contradict Stroustrup... Read more

22 April, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

'Most important ever' MySQL reaches beta

...MySQL is the most widely used open source database, according to a Evans Data Corporation survey released in January. It accounted for 40 percent of... Read more

29 March, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

MySQL and Firebird battle for database top spot

...open source database product, according to a survey released on Thursday. The Evans Data Corporation survey of 400 database developers found that MySQL accounted for... Read more

21 January, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Coders 'have support concerns' over open source

...by software company BEA, which sells proprietary software, and carried out by Evans Data Corporation. It found that although 60 percent of developers would use... Read more

18 January, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Linux vendors hit back at Ballmer's email

Novell and Mandrakesoft have accused Microsoft's chief executive of being selective with the facts in his latest email attacking Linux Read more

28 October, 2004 by Ingrid Marson

IBM tries to eclipse .Net with open source

The recent launch of IBM's Office application suite is part of a broader challenge to Microsoft's entire .Net development framework, say industry experts Read more

12 May, 2004 by Munir Kotadia

Java: Not just for the server anymore?

...constitutes an embedded system? According to Tom Williams, embedded systems analyst for Evans Data Corporation, the term embedded system is broadly used to refer to... Read more

15 September, 2002 by Lamont Adams

Chinese developers place confidence in open source

...from Beijing that China wants to develop a Windows clone operating system, Evans Data Corporation's first survey of the People's Republic of China... Read more

25 July, 2002 by Andrew Colley

The Year Ahead: Will Linux survive the dot-com crash?

2001 saw Linux suffer from its association with the dot-com boom, as the Internet economy suddenly found itself unpopular. But open source development will prevail, say observers Read more

2 January, 2002 by Matthew Broersma

Linux gets wireless boost from development figures

...developed over the last 6 months. The growth is reported in the Evans Data Corporation's Linux Developers Survey, a study of more than 300... Read more

14 September, 2000 by Will Knight

The Bloor Perspective: The death of free email, Linux databases and P2P prize-giving

This week Robin Bloor and his team of analysts look at why free email is on its way out, what Linux can do for databases and why a P2P Java outfit is winning praises. Read more

8 April, 2002 by Bloor Research

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