Eclipse Shines Brighter With Developers

Source: Dr. Dobb's Journal

Summary:
The future looks brighter than ever for the Eclipse development platform, according to a recent market research study.

An Evans Data Corporation report released this week shows that Eclipse, the open source Java development environment, continues to gain support among professional developers. In North America, according to the report, the number of developers using Eclipse as their primary IDE grew 90 percent over the past year.

At the same time, according to the report, the number of developers using Eclipse grew more than 70 percent in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region and by more than 60 percent in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

"Among the top three Java IDEs, Eclipse is the only one gaining market share in EMEA, APAC and North America," said Evans analyst Albion Butters in a statement. "Eclipse looks like it may become the true open source killer app," he stated, drawing a comparison with similar growth in the use of MySQL, a popular open source database.

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