Almost Half of APAC Developers Plan to Increase Use of Open Source, New Evans Data Survey.SANTA CRUZ Santa Cruz, city, United States Santa Cruz (săn`tə kr  z), city (1990 pop. 49,040), seat of Santa Cruz co., W Calif., on the north shore of Monterey Bay; inc. 1866. , Calif. -- Evans Ev·ans , Herbert McLean 1882-1971.American anatomist who isolated four pituitary hormones and discovered vitamin E (1922). Data's new Spring 2005 Asia Pacific Development Survey has found that 47% of APAC APAC Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing APAC Agricultural Policy Analysis Center APAC Asia and Pacific APAC Asian Pacific American Coalition APAC Adapted Physical Activity Council (American Alliance for Health) developers are increasing their adoption of open source in the next year. Only 25% of developers in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. expect to increase their use of open source next year. Only 4% of the APAC developers expect to decrease the use of open source in the next twelve months. (http://www.evansdata.com/cgi/relocate.php?key=apac2005_1_1) APAC developers contribute back to the open source community more, 44%, than their North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. counterparts, 32%. Additionally, almost 70% of APAC developers believe that Linux can be used in mission-critical deployments compared to 57% in North America. "There's a direct correlation Noun 1. direct correlation - a correlation in which large values of one variable are associated with large values of the other and small with small; the correlation coefficient is between 0 and +1 positive correlation between developers who use Java and the use of open source software modules in development, the greater the use of Java the more likely the developer utilizes open source," said Steve Fullmer, Evans Data's APAC and North American analyst. "We've also found this trend in the enterprise space in North America, greater use of Java corresponds clearly with a greater acceptance and use of open source resources." Other findings from the July 2005 survey of more than 400 developers in the Asia-Pacific region: --Six months ago, APAC adoption of 64 bit technology was flat but Evans Data has found that the number of developers without intentions to develop to 64-bit technology has dropped by almost 60% from 35% six months ago to 15% today. (http://www.evansdata.com/cgi/relocate.php?key=apac2005_1_2) --Companies with strong security practices have maintained their security but the number of respondents In the context of marketing research, a representative sample drawn from a larger population of people from whom information is collected and used to develop or confirm marketing strategy. victimized by security breaches has slightly increased to 74% along with an increase in the diversity and form of the attacks. Many of the breaches could be resolved by applying standard Microsoft patches and upgrades on a regular basis. (http://www.evansdata.com/cgi/relocate.php?key=apac2005_1_3) About Evans Data Corporation Evans Data Corporation (www.evansdata.com) provides regularly updated IT industry market intelligence based on in-depth surveys of the global developer population. Evans' syndicated research includes surveys focused on developers in a wide variety of subjects. Evans Data will be hosting a Mobility Summit on September 26th in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , more information is available at http://www.evansdata.com/mobilitysummit/. |
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