Study finds Asia/Pac to the fore in open source development
Study finds Asia/Pac to the fore in open source development
Aug 1, 2005: Adoption of open source among developers in Asia Pacific is set to grow at almost twice the rate of North America, a study has found.
Evans Data’s new Spring 2005 Asia Pacific Development Survey found that 47 percent of Asia/Pac developers are increasing their adoption of open source in the next year, while only 25 percent of developers in North America expect to do likewise.
Only 4 percent of the Asia/Pac developers expect to decrease the use of open source in the next twelve months.
The report also stated that 44 percent of Asia/Pac developers contribute back to the open source community, compared to 32 percent of their counterparts in North America. Additionally, almost 70 percent of Asia/Pac developers believe that Linux can be used in mission-critical deployments, compared to 57 percent in North America.
“There’s a direct correlation between developers who use Java and the use of open source software modules in development - the greater the use of Java the more likely the developer utilises open source,” said Steve Fullmer, Evans Data’s Asia/Pac and North American analyst. “We’ve also found this trend in the enterprise space in North America - greater use of Java corresponds clearly with a greater acceptance and use of open source resources.”
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