Category: Software dev

47% of Java shops use Java-based Spring Framework. In addition, 73% said they either use Spring now or plan to use it by 2010, Evans Sata found.

Scripting languages are used by 56% of developers today, and while more than half of those developers use scripts less than 20% of the time, both the total number of developers using scripting languages and the amount of time spent is expected to increase during the coming year, Evans Data reports. Linux was strong for both target and platform with PHP and Ruby users. 54% of developers write multi-threaded applications. The primary perceived obstacle to multi-core development is the complexity of parallel programming, followed by a lack of available tools. 51% of North American developers use agile development techniques some part of the time, and that share is expected to increase in 2008.

More than twice as many developers are using Intel tools for multi-core development than tools from any other vendor, according to Evans Data. 46.1% of all embedded systems developers were using tools from Intel for multi-core work ? far more than those using tools from other vendors including AMD, Wind River, Green Hills, QNX and others. Over 75% of embedded systems developers use some third-party IP. Two-thirds of developers working on embedded systems for multi-core processors are targeting homogeneous cores. Two-thirds of developers working with embedded systems say that having access to the source code for the Runtime Operating System they’re targeting is either very important or extremely important.

By 2011, at least 80% of commercial software will contain significant amounts of open source code, according to Gartner.

The total number of developers using C# has increased 40% during the in 2006 in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), Evans Data reports. In 2006 the number of developers using C# any part of the time was 25.1%, and in 2007 that number has risen to 34.9%. In addition, the% of developers using C# more than half the time has also risen by forty% from 9.4% to 13.2%. Careless data validation is the leading cause of security vulnerabilities in the region, followed by buffer overflows. 65% of developers in EMEA either are using or are planning to use AJAX in their development efforts. 40% report extending their data and business processes from legacy host systems to new applications.

Developers in Brazil expect their use of the Ruby scripting language to double in the in 2008, according to an Evans Data survey of over 400 developers in Brazil, China, India and Eastern Europe. Although 15.6% of developers in Brazil use Ruby today, 33% expect to use it in 2008. Ruby use is currently strongest amongst the emerging markets in China, with 20% using it today, but only minor growth is expected during the coming year. Javascript is the most commonly used scripting language in emerging markets as well as elsewhere. Over 80% of Chinese developers report using Javascript some of the time, 76% using it in India, 71% using it in Eastern Europe, and 69% in Brazil.

64% of wireless developers worldwide are creating some open source applications. Across all regions 55% are writing OSS apps, with 71% in North America. Half of developers worldwide use location based information. This is true in all regions except Latin America, where only a third of developers use location based information, Evans Data reports.

10% of developers in the Asia Pacific region are working on computer games, according to Evans Data. That’s three times more than in North America. In addition, nearly a quarter of developers are writing mobile applications, and of those, 25% spend more than half of their time on mobile apps. 74% of developers are thirty years old or less, and this proportion has increased in the in 2006, suggesting a strong influx of new developers in this age range. Only 3% are more than fifty years old, compared to 26% of the North American developer population.

Targeting of the Windows OS has declined by 12% from a year ago, continuing a two-year gradual decline. Currently 64.8% of North American developers are targeting some version of Windows, as opposed to 74% in 2006 and this is expected to drop another 2% in the coming year. Although Windows remains the largest market segment, Linux targeting has increased by 34% from 8.8% a year ago to 11.8% today, Evans Data reports.

Javascript is the most widely used scripting language – with more than three times the users of PHP, Ruby, or Python, but use of Ruby is expected to increase by 50% within the coming year. A third of North American developers are currently working with virtualization, and 42.5% expect to be adopting this within the in 2008.

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) will be used in more than 50% of new mission-critical operational applications and business processes designed in 2007 and in more than 80% by 2010, according to Gartner.

Close to 25% of enterprise-level developers indicated that they already have service-oriented architecture in place, and another 28% plan to do so within the next 24 months. Adoption of enterprise service buses (currently at 15%) will more than double during this same time. 60% of the in-house corporate developers said they will likely increase budget spending on web security allotments over the course of in 2008, web services came in second in the list of budgeting priorities, followed by integration projects. 10% of the respondents said they currently have grid computing, respondents indicated that this number will triple, to 30%, within 24 months. The top reasons for corporations to outsource, to save money (22%), in-house skill shortages (20%), and access to special expertise (17%), Evans Data says.

Top drivers for SOA adoption include the expectation of greater reuse in existing and newly-built Web services, business flexibility, ease of integration and speed of integration ? with nearly 90% of respondents pointing to service reuse as their number one concern. In September and October of 2006, Hurwitz & Associates surveyed 99 IT executives from companies in North America and the UK with a size greater than 250 employees who had expressed an interest in SOA or Web services. 66% had begun their SOA journey. 47% of the respondents, who had implemented SOA cited some dissatisfaction with their reuse due to a lack of planning and business goals and a lack of understanding of what services are available for reuse. 50% of respondents stated that they have no registry or repository solution in place or use an in-house solution.

The data integration tools market will grow to $2.2 bln by 2010. This will reflect a five-year compound annual growth rate of 17.4%, Gartner says.

Ajaxian.com survey of most popular AJAX frameworks resulted in Prototype winning with 43% followed by Scriptaculous with 33% and Dojo with 19%. DWR (Direct Web Remoting) was 4th with 12% of developers preferring this framework, followed by Moo.fx (11%), jQuery (7%), Yahoo! UI (5%) and Rico (5%).

According to Forrester Research, 56% of North American organizations are already using open source software and another 19% said they planned to use it in the coming year. The adoption has taken off so quickly that today, 55% of companies in North America say they use open source software in “mission-critical” applications.

74.7% of respondents to Simula Labs survey said that cost is not the primary reason for adopting and deploying open source software within their organization. Of the decision drivers, greater control over software code (as compared to proprietary software) was the most popular reason for choosing open source, garnering 33.1% of the respondent vote. Nearly one in every five developers chose either ‘lower barrier to evaluation/use’ (19.5%) or ‘less vendor lock-in’ (18.3%) as the top reasons for choosing open source software. 26.6% of respondents indicated that the majority of their development teams are dispersed geographically in separate areas. 44.1% of respondents indicated that a quarter or more of their development team was geographically dispersed.

Worldwide embedded software development tools and real-time operating system market revenue continued to expand, with 17.2% growth in 2005, Gartner says.