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Evans Data: Developers Trending Away From Windows

By David Worthington

July 3, 2007 — There is an accelerating trend away from targeting Windows for applications, and that trend is forecast to continue, according to the results of an Evans Data Corp. survey published today.

The most marked results in the company’s biannual North American Development Survey are that targeting of the Windows operating system has declined by 12 percent from one year ago, continuing an observed two-year decline.

In 2006, 74 percent of over 400 responders indicated that they were targeting some version of Windows for application development. This year, that number fell to 64.8 percent with an equal sample. Evans expects another 2 percent drop in the coming year.

There is a bright side for Microsoft: Evans found that Windows use on the development desktop has remained steady.

The survey found that Linux targeting had increased 34 percent, from 8.8 percent a year ago to 11.8 percent today. The data also shows that there was corresponding growth in niche operating systems for devices. “The landscape is changing," said John Andrews, president and chief executive officer of Evans Data.

Evans did not divulge its methodology or other supportive information. The North American Development Survey has been conducted for the past 10 years; a significant trend away from Windows has been observed only over the past two years.

Microsoft declined to comment on the Evans survey. It is a client of Evans and a member of its advisory board.

Other survey findings are that JavaScript is the most widely used scripting language, eclipsing PHP, Python and Ruby. However, Ruby usage is expected to increase by half over a year’s time.

Additionally, a third of North American developers are working with virtualization, and adoption is expected to increase by 42.5 percent within a year.

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