From: Adam 

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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