North American developers turning away from Windows
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Says Evans Data: http://www.evansdata.com/n2/pr/releases/WindowsInDecline2007.shtml[^] But only 400 people have participated in the survey so the numbers may not be convincing.
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Says Evans Data: http://www.evansdata.com/n2/pr/releases/WindowsInDecline2007.shtml[^] But only 400 people have participated in the survey so the numbers may not be convincing.
400 is way a small number. Anyway, I wouldn't be surprised if the survey was correct. Developers just go, usually, when there is work to do, and if the market goes toward Linuex, developers just follow. My 2 cents.
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Says Evans Data: http://www.evansdata.com/n2/pr/releases/WindowsInDecline2007.shtml[^] But only 400 people have participated in the survey so the numbers may not be convincing.
And what are they turning to? Barkeep? Bus driver? Biodynamic farmer? Marc
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Says Evans Data: http://www.evansdata.com/n2/pr/releases/WindowsInDecline2007.shtml[^] But only 400 people have participated in the survey so the numbers may not be convincing.
They stopped asking when they ran out of Mac users, and the numbers started moving away from what they were hoping to 'prove'.
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Says Evans Data: http://www.evansdata.com/n2/pr/releases/WindowsInDecline2007.shtml[^] But only 400 people have participated in the survey so the numbers may not be convincing.
There may be truth in this, but not for the reasons given. Reality is that for many corporate environments, the software on Windows is fairly mature. Given the tendency to declare things done once they "work" means that tightly budgeted departments can now turn their attention to trying to get stuff working on other platforms. (The question IT managers must ask is whether it's really worth saving money on server licenses by spending more in development. I don't think it does, but that's because I don't trust developers:)) (Other numbers in the survey tells me they are interviewing a very narrow set of developers and was probably a very self-selecting process.)
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Says Evans Data: http://www.evansdata.com/n2/pr/releases/WindowsInDecline2007.shtml[^] But only 400 people have participated in the survey so the numbers may not be convincing.
Andre Buenger wrote:
But only 400 people have participated in the survey so the numbers may not be convincing.
It gets worse than this. In the case of surveys, you REALLY have to know the questions, not just the answers. "There are three types of lies - lies, damn lies, and statistics." For instance, I am listed as a user for SimDIS, a government project that I compete against regularly. Why am I listed as a user for my competition? I have once downloaded their software for evaluation, and they wanted to show use stats to get funding. I am also listed as a user of STK, which we bought in the middle 1990's and it really couldn't fit the bill for use here, thus we wrote our own, but I continue to evaluate it and other products. I am also listed as a user of the VTP (Virtual Terrain Project) because I, with the owner's permission, regularly download the software and share minor routines with it. And yet I write my own software to use for our own customers. In the end, statistically I am listed as running about half a dozen (plus) programs even though I only use only my own, because those other 5+ want to show more customers, so they use me as a customer even when I am not. In one case I am listed twice, once by my employer, and once by the parent organization, because they needed more users, so they used both companies. I also have two windows machines, and one linux machine, do they count how many? rarely. One survey asked "are you supporting Linux?" when the answer is "yes" then statistically they published that I am moving away from Windows.... but that wasn't what they asked! I am supporting both, but they didn't care, they wanted only Linux information, and used it to show something else. So believe very little about statistics until you have read all the answers, and know who it was that answered.
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400 is way a small number. Anyway, I wouldn't be surprised if the survey was correct. Developers just go, usually, when there is work to do, and if the market goes toward Linuex, developers just follow. My 2 cents.
If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. - Charlie Brooker My Blog - My Photos - ScrewTurn Wiki
There *is* some trend towards browser-based applications, simply because more is feasible now than was before. Still "Move away from windows" sounds like something different.
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