Eclipse Challenges Visual Studio.NET in EMEA Region, Latest Evans Data Report Shows.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. -- The adoption rate of Eclipse has more than doubled in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Refers to that region of the world. For example, one might see products packaged differently for the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific markets. region, making it the first IDE to challenge Microsoft Visual Studio Microsoft Visual Studio is Microsoft's flagship software development product for computer programmers. It centers on an integrated development environment which lets programmers create standalone applications, web sites, web applications, and web services that run on any platforms .NET among developers there, according to according toprep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the recently released Evans Data EMEA Development Survey. Fully a third of developers now use Eclipse. Additionally use of the set of plug-ins needed to develop rich-client applications, collectively known as the Eclipse Rich Client Platform A Rich Client Platform (RCP) is a piece of software consisting of the following components:
"We are very pleased with the results of Evans Data's research, which confirms Eclipse's growth globally as the platform of choice for developers," stated Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation The Eclipse Foundation leads the development of Eclipse, the open-source Java application platform and IDE. History In 2003–2004 the Eclipse Consortium, an unofficial consortium of software industry vendors led by IBM, founded The Eclipse Foundation, a . "We are particularly happy with the continued momentum of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform." "These results are reflective of the overall market adoption we are seeing for Eclipse adoption globally," John Andrews, President, Evans Data added. "The addition of the Rich Client Platform provides the developers a great advantage being able to write an application once and it will run on Windows, Mac OS and Linux." Other findings from the Winter 2006 survey of almost 400 developers in the EMEA region: * Forty-two percent of EMEA developers use XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. as a component of their development efforts. * AJAX demonstrates the highest growth rate (+12%) amongst web service standards, consistent with XML expansion. * Java frameworks are considered the most important Java feature, although refactoring emphasis more than doubled during the period, suggesting added focus on coding efficiency associated with Java development efforts. 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. Copyrighte 2006 Evans Data Corporation. All other company names, products and services mentioned in this document are the trademarks and property of their respective owners. |
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