Developers moving over to Linux

James McDonald james
Fri Jun 2 21:40:10 PDT 2006


On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 06:51:58PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote:
> On 06/02/2006 06:41 PM, Collins Richey wrote:
> >http://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/2006060202826OPMRDV
> >
> >A recent study by IBM revealed that
> >
> >"According to survey, by the end of the year, it is expected that the
> >number of developers expected to be working on Linux will match the
> >number of expected Windows developers.
> >
> >You read that right. The expected development targets for
> >developers--from an independent survey--will be 50% for Linux and 50%
> >of Windows by the end of 2006."
> >
> >
> 
> As much as I'd like this to be true, I don't believe it.  I don't see 
> how they could even come up with accurate results for such a survey.
> 
> -- 
Maybe at corporate headoffice there may be a heap of people coding with 
Linux in a bid to look forward to the future... But in Bangalor where 
perhaps the contract coding is getting done I wonder how many are using Linux?


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