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Zeichick's Take: Eclipse Users Focus on Java Development


By Alan Zeichick
November 8, 2007 — 
RESTON, VA. — Greetings from EclipseWorld 2007. Today is the last day of our conference, and I'm delighted that EclipseWorld gets better every year. If you're here at EclipseWorld 2007, of course, you know what I'm talking about. If you weren't able to make it, all I can say is: Bummer. Mark your calendar now for EclipseWorld 2008, Oct. 28-30, in Reston, Va.

Earlier this week, International Data Corp. released a fascinating study of the Eclipse community. The study, completed on Oct. 26, revealed what many of us suspected (and which BZ Research has determined independently): Eclipse is primarily being used for Java development.

According to the study, the three most popular Eclipse projects, after the IDE itself, are the Java Development Tools at 88 percent, followed by the Web Standard Tools at 54 percent, and the Java EE Standard Tools at 44 percent. Nearly 3 out of 4 respondents said they were building server-centric applications.

Interestingly, the study showed that 71 percent of respondents work for an IT solutions providers—a software company, a hardware company, VAR or systems integrator. Only 29 percent were enterprise developers. Why is this? One reason might be that Eclipse users are predominantly associated with the member companies that most actively support the foundation, like IBM.

Another reason might be that this study is skewed toward those companies that belong to the foundation or have other business ties to the Eclipse market. Respondents for the study were solicited by open links posted on Eclipse.org and on the Eclipse newsgroups. Enterprise developers, one might assume, don't monitor Eclipse.org as closely as the employees of member companies.

Frankly, I think that the second option is the case. So, this might be best interpreted as a study of people who have a strong stake in Eclipse, instead of as the broader population of Eclipse users.

You can read a summary of the study on the Eclipse site. The entire IDC Eclipse Community Study, 92 pages long, is also available for download.

BZ Research conducts an annual Eclipse study, and we'll be gearing up for it in early December. Our latest findings were reported in SD Times last January.


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