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Title: Survey: Windows loses ground with developers - Paul Krill, InfoWorld Post by: Stephen Taylor on July 14, 2007, 10:04:39 AM Survey: Windows loses ground with developers - Paul Krill, InfoWorld
A survey this spring of more than 400 developers and IT managers in North America found that the number of developers targeting Windows for their applications declined 12 percent from a year ago. Just 64.8 percent targeted the platform as opposed to 74 percent in 2006. "We attribute [the decline] largely to the increase in developers beginning to target Linux and different Linux [distributions]. Both Novell and Red Hat are the two dominant ones right now," said John Andrews, the CEO of Evans Data. Read More.. (http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/07/02/mswindows-share_1.html) |