A Summary of the 2009 Eclipse Survey (Open Source)

This item went passed me, I don't know how. According to the April-May 2009 Eclipse Survey of mostly Java IDE programmers in that open source community, Ubuntu is the most used linux distro in their desktops.

Eclipse is an open source community of software developers originally created by IBM. The survey they conducted May 2009 was completed by 1,365 respondents who identified themselves as programmers.

These are some of the highlights of the survey.

The respondents were asked what operating system their software are being deployed on.

It is interesting to note that Ubuntu accounts for clearly half of the linux developer desktops. This just blows away the myth that Ubuntu is a distro for beginners in linux. Another surprise is the fact that Red Hat and Ubuntu are sharing the server deployments equally.

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