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Collaborative, rich application development catching on with businesses

By Robert Mullins

May 1, 2008 — REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — While MySpace and YouTube may be the most well-known sites of the Web’s so-called second generation, a surprising number of developers are writing similar applications for enterprises, new research reveals.

Close to 40% of developers creating collaborative programs are writing such “Web 2.0” applications for a corporate enterprise, said John Andrews, president and chief executive of Evans Data, at a developer relations conference hosted by the research firm Monday.

Andrews called that “surprising,” given that the most well known of these rich Internet applications are consumer-oriented.

Enterprises are using some of the design features of social networking sites—rich graphics, user-generated content and the like—for such business efforts as collaboration on projects by team members in different cities, or deployment of enhanced Web applications to workers’ mobile devices.

These developers are also widely embracing open-source platforms, Andrews noted, as 70% of developers surveyed use scripting languages such as Perl, PHP, Python or Ruby.

“Web 2.0 is all about quick innovation and quick development,” Andrews explained. “[Developers] are enabled by great product but they’re also enabled because of the lightweight kind of development world that they live in.”

Evans also shared with attendees data on the growth of the global developer community.

The survey showed that 42% of developers use agile development methods instead of the traditional “waterfall” method, and 36% plan to adopt agile in the near future. Only 22% had no plans for agile.

Evans also shows that the total developer population continues to grow faster in the expanding economies of India and China than elsewhere. It projects the developer population in India to grow between 15% and 16% a year through 2011 and in China by 10% to 12%, while the population in the U.S. will only grow between 3.5% and 4%.

The global population of developers is projected to grow to 17.6 million in 2011, from 13.2 million in 2007, according to Evans.

The population survey is a projection of trends based on a survey of 1,400 developers worldwide.

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