From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

I very much doubt that number. A quick sample of 6 developers here reveals
100% who've tried Eclipse and 0% who actually use it, myself included.
Admittably there is a large-ish error margin with my sampling, but I still
feel that 2/3 is way too much. Or maybe it's "enterprise software
developers" which skews the picture - that excludes most of normal
programmers, right?


Antti Kurenniemi

"Adam" 
wrote in message news:45bde575{at}w3.nls.net...
> http://www.sdtimes.com/article/story-20070115-03.html
>
> "Two-thirds of enterprise software developers—66.3 percent—use Eclipse.
> That’s according to the most recent Eclipse Adoption Study, conducted by
> BZ Research in November 2006. The study has an accuracy of 2 percentage
> points.
>
> Eclipse penetration has been increasing slowly but surely, since BZ
> Research (a division of BZ Media, publisher of SD Times) began studying
> Eclipse adoption. In the first Eclipse study, in September 2004, usage was
> 53.9 percent, and it jumped to 62.5 percent by the second study, in
> November 2005.
>
> Why do developers use Eclipse? The top reason, chosen by 64.7 percent of
> respondents, was that it’s a low-cost solution. Next was that Eclipse is
> an open-source solution (61.5 percent), that there’s a wide array of
> plug-ins available (60.4 percent), it’s extensible (47.6 percent), it’s
> easy to learn and use (40.3 percent), and it’s cross-platform (37.4
> percent). Those answers closely match the answers given to the same
> question in the 2005 study.
>
> “We are using Eclipse because it is free, it has a lot of helpful plug-ins
> and a great community and foundation supporting it,” said Aldo Nievas, CEO
> of Satio Software Solutions. “It’s free, flexible and gives us great,
> powerful tools to do things like refactoring, monitor for flaws in code,
> and provide point-of use API documentation and source browsing for our own
> libraries as well as the third-party libraries we use,” added Jim Elliott,
> a senior software engineer with Berbee Information Networks. "
>
>
> "“I’m a fan of open source, but for my IDE, I want what’s best, not what’s
> cheapest. I was skeptical when we started using Eclipse, but I now feel
> that not only is it cheaper than the alternatives, but it is higher
> quality as well. I also love the flexibility that we have with Eclipse. I’ll
> always have a place in my heart for IntelliJ IDEA, but I’ll probably never
> purchase a newer version. Eclipse has just gotten too good to justify
> anything else. We need C#/mono/.NET development tools for Eclipse, then we
> could develop solely on GNU/Linux, and get rid of Visual Studio,” said
> Adam Choate, CTO of Void Solutions."
>
> Adam

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