A
recent study conducted by Jeffrey Hammond, a Forrester research VP and
principal analyst suggested that four out of five programmers are either
now using or have recently used open source development tools.
Forrester had conducted the survey along with Black Duck software and
North Bridge Venture Partners of over 1,400 programmers. They revealed
that 84 per cent among them were using the open source software. This
even involved all those developers who usually stick with Microsoft
Visual Studio, are now using open source.
The
reason that they stated was that the majority of developers have
switched to open source because they see open source development
programs as having better reliability and performance. Hammond stated
that Open source was popular only because of the lower cost and now the
cost of tools is least important element for the developers.
The
survey further reveals about the three industries which are expected to
be impacted the most by open source software are education, government,
and health care. He said that in these areas open source projects like
Apache Tomcat, the JavaServer Pages (JSP) server and replacing
proprietary programs.
He
further stated that big data and NoSQL are the areas where open source
have become software groundbreaker. By this he analysed that open source
is not just replacing the old software but also leading the way in new
software.
According
to Hammond, not just the cost saving is the reason but also that
developers find it more convenient to try open source solution despite
of dealing with the hurdles of acquiring proprietary software. As per
the survey, open source is leading in several other fields as well like
cloud/virtualization-73 per cent; Content Management Systems (CMS)
66-per cent; Mobile-61 per cent; Security- 59 per cent; and network
management-57 per cent.
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