12.14.06
Developers Still Flock to Open Source Software
Here is a collection of links to some very recent articles. They undoubtedly prove that Open Source is winning the development battle. Steam-gaining seems exponential.
- Developers’ use of open source Eclipse doubles
- Study: Developers Favor Linux
- Open source booming in Asia
- Developers Embrace Java, Drop Visual Basic
- TIOBE Programming Community Index for November 2006
- Google joins Eclipse Foundation
- Five Years On: The Future of Eclipse
- Eclipse Is Still Going Strong
- Eclipse: A Billion-Dollar Baby?
- Eclipse Adoption on The Rise
Steve Ballmer cheers his own developers on, but this may be too late.
Meanwhile, Larry Ellison ‘pulls a Ballmer’.





















Highlight: Novell was the first to acknowledge that Microsoft FUD tactics had substance. Novell then used anti-Linux FUD to market itself.
Highlight: Xandros let Microsoft make patent claims and brag about (paid-for) OOXML support.
Highlight: Linspire's CEO not only fell into Microsoft arms, but he also assisted the company's attack on GNU/Linux.
Highlight: Microsoft craves pseudo (proprietary) standards and gets its way using proxies and influence which it buys.
Highlight: The invasion into the open source world is intended to leave Linux companies neglected, due to financial incentives from Microsoft.
Analysis: Xen, an open source hypervisor, possibly fell victim to Microsoft's aggressive (and stealthy) acquisition-by-proxy strategy.