ECLIPSE
COMMUNITY SURVEY
REPORT
JUNE 2013
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ABOUT THE SURVEY
• Survey was open to the Eclipse community from April 12 – May 10, 2013.
The primary method for promoting the survey was news posting on
eclipse.org home page, twitter, Facebook and forums postings.
• 1070 individuals responded to the survey and 920 completed the survey.
The results are based on the 920 completed survey responses.
• We received 355 (38.6%) completed survey responses from Germany. This
was due to press coverage of the survey by a popular German developer
portal.
• This report is a summary of the overall results. Some results of some
questions only include the more popular options. In addition, not all the
questions are reported. The details data is available at
http://eclipse.org/org/press-release/20130612_eclipsesurvey2013.php
• Eclipse Foundation has run a similar surveys in previous years.
Comparison in this report are from the results of these surveys.
• 2012 http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20120608_eclipsesurvey2012.php
• 2011 http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20110610_survey.php
• 2010 http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20100604_survey2010.php
• 2009 http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20090527_survey09.php
• 2007 http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20071106_cbsurvey.php
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DEMOGRAPHICS

7%
8%
24%
24%
17%
9%
12%
How many years have you spent writing code in
a professional capacity? (Choose one.)
Just learning to
code
Less than 2 years
2-5 years
6-10 years
11-15 years
16-20 years
 47% have 2-10 years experience writing code
EXPERIENCE
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34%
9%
7%5%5%
5%
5%
4%
2%
24%
Which of the following most closely describes
your industry? (Choose one.)
High-tech products
Student
Professional services
Industrial products
manufacturing
Individual - not affiliated
with an industry
Financial services
Researcher
Government
(federal, state, local)
Telecom carriers
Other
 Significant representation from software and hardware vendors
creating high-tech products
INDUSTRY
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33%
21%12%
8%
9%
15%
2%
What is your best estimate of how many employees
work at your organization? (Choose one.)
Fewer than 100
100 to 999
1,000 to 4,999
5,000 to 19,999
20,000 or more
Individual, not affiliated with
an organization
Don't know
ORGANIZATION SIZE
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 54% respondents work in organizations with less than 1000 employees.
 17% respondents work in organizations with more than 5000
employees

WHAT ARE DEVELOPERS
USING?

64%
27%
6.9%
58%
33%
7.9%
63%
28%
8.5%
55%
32.50%
12%
54.6%
35.1%
8.7%
Windows
Linux
Mac OSX
What is your primary operating system for software
development? (Choose one.)
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
 55% continue to use Windows
 Linux usage increased to 35%
DESKTOP OPERATING SYSTEM
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DEPLOYMENT OPERATING SYSTEM
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5.9%
6.6%
8.2%
8.2%
9.0%
12.6%
15.0%
16.0%
16.7%
21.3%
21.8%
34.3%
66.5%
6.1%
5.8%
6.1%
5.9%
6.3%
13.4%
11.7%
12.6%
18.8%
20.2%
22.1%
33.0%
60.8%
Embedded OS (ex.…
Oracle Solaris
Linux - Fedora
Apple iOS
Unix (AIX, HP-UX)
Linux - Other
Linux - SUSE
Mac OSX
Android
Linux - Debian
Linux - RHEL
Linux - Ubuntu
MS Windows (any version…
What are your primary operating systems for software deployment?
(Based on importance, choose up to 5)
2013
2012
 Windows decreased to 60.8% from 66.5% as a deployment OS.

67%
11%
5%
4%
3%
3%
2%
3%
1%
1%
Java
C/C++
PHP
Python
C
JavaScript
C#
Other…
Scala
Groovy
What is the primary computer language you typically use to
develop software? (Choose one.)
PRIMARY LANGUAGE
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1.8%
5.2%
4.7%
9.2%
21.0%
26.9%
26.9%
4.3%
5.4%
4.2%
11.7%
18.6%
28.4%
22.9%
4.1%
4.2%
6.3%
10.7%
20.5%
21.0%
30.3%
4.7%
6.8%
7.1%
7.3%
18.5%
23.0%
29.1%
Mobile applications
Embedded software
Research/scientific applications
Plug-ins for Eclipse
Desktop client applications
Server-centric & Middleware
applications…
Web applications & Rich Internet
Applications
What is the primary type of software you are personally involved
in developing? (Choose one.)
2013
2012
2011
2010
TYPE OF SOFTWARE
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SERVER FRAMEWORKS
14.0%
4.2%
11.8%
10.1%
5.7%
18.6%
19.7%
12.4%
4.5%
13.0%
10.7%
6.8%
14.7%
24.3%
15.6%
4.5%
7.8%
10.4%
12.3%
18.8%
22.7%
18.2%
4.7%
11.7%
8.4%
6.1%
23.4%
25.2%
None - I'm not using a server
framework
Java Server Faces (JSF)
Other (specify)
Servlets
Equinox (or other OSGi runtime)
EJBs
Spring
What is the primary server framework you use for deployed
applications? (Choose one.)
2013
2012
2011
2010
 Spring and EJBs continue to be the most popular server
frameworks
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PRIMARY APPLICATION SERVER
3.3%
2.9%
5.2%
5.1%
3.6%
10.5%
33.8%
2.6%
3.0%
4.3%
4.0%
3.5%
9.0%
32.1%
2.5%
3.6%
4.9%
5.1%
6.6%
8.6%
33.6%
2.5%
3.9%
4.3%
4.0%
4.3%
8.2%
29.9%
Oracle WebLogic
Glassfish
Other (specify)
IBM WebSphere
Jetty
JBoss
Apache Tomcat
What is the primary application server you typically use for
deployed applications? (Choose one.)
2013
2012
2011
2010
 Apache Tomcat continues to be the most popular application server
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0.9%
2.8%
3.0%
12.6%
6.8%
58.3%
0.6%
2.7%
4.6%
13.3%
12.8%
51.3%
2.2%
2.3%
2.6%
8.9%
4.4%
23.2%
46.0%
1.4%
2.2%
3.6%
4.5%
6.0%
30.3%
37.8%
IBM Rational Team Concert
IBM Rational ClearCase
Mercurial
CVS
GitHub
Git
Subversion
What is the primary source code management system you
typically use? (Choose one.)
2013
2012
2011
2010
PRIMARY CODE MANAGEMENT
 Subversion continue to decrease to only 37.8%
 Git and GitHub combined represent 36.3%
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BUILD AND RELEASE MGMT PRODUCT
14.2%
21.8%
15.7%
50.4%
28.3%
16.0%
32.2%
16.0%
32.2%
48.2%
30.8%
2.3%
6.0%
5.1%
11.6%
7.1%
10.1%
20.1%
15.3%
29.8%
50.8%
42.3%
4.5%
6.1%
6.2%
6.5%
8.0%
9.7%
10.9%
12.7%
16.7%
35.3%
38.3%
41.3%
Gradle
Other (specify)
CMake
PDE Build
Custom/in-house
Tycho
Sonatype Nexus
Hudson
Make
Jenkins
Ant
Maven
What build and release management products do you
typically use? (Select all that apply.)
2013
2012
2011
2010
 Usage of Ant declined from 50.8% to 38.3%
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CLOUD AND MOBILE

8.0%
9.1%
8.5%
10.4%
52.7%
11.2%
6.4%
14.9%
7.2%
12.7%
47.8%
10.9%
8%
14%
7%
12%
47%
13%
Deploy the majority apps
Deploy a minority apps
Plans to deploy in the next
6 months
Plans to deploy in the next
7-18 months
No plans
Don't know
Are you or your organization deploying applications to a cloud
infrastructure? (Choose one.)
2013
2012
2011
PLANS FOR CLOUD COMPUTING
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 Number of respondents with no plans for Cloud deployments has
remained consistent.
 In Germany, 59.5% have no plans for Cloud deployment
compared to 47% overall

9.8%
23.1%
29.3%
4.0%
2.7%
4.0%
13.5%
30.0%
36.0%
2.3%
2.3%
3.0%
3.4%
5.3%
22.4%
30.8%
Rackspace
Cloud
IBM
Microsoft
Azure
Red Hat
OpenShift
Google
AppEngine
Private cloud
Amazon
If you are or have plans to use a cloud infrastructure, which
service are you likely to use? (Choose one.)
2013
2012
2011
CLOUD PROVIDERS
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 In Germany, Private Cloud is most popular at 35% vs Amazon (21.3%)

5.2%
18.5%
11.3%
10.6%
14.0%
31.6%
8.9%
5.7%
17.6%
19.7%
10.4%
13.9%
23.9%
8.7%
8.7%
21.5%
15.7%
10.0%
11.7%
22.4%
10.0%
Developed apps for
internal users
Developed apps for
external users
Developed apps for
internal and external users
In the next 6 months
In the next 7-18 months
No plans
Don't know
Are you or your organization planning to create applications
for mobile devices (smartphones, tablets, etc.)
2013
2012
2011
PLANS FOR MOBILE
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MOBILE PLATFORMS
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15.1%
13.6%
66.3%
85.3%
11.4%
11.1%
19.9%
73.8%
89.6%
9.7%
17.9%
19.9%
65.7%
86.8%
RIM Blackberry
MS Windows Phone
Optimize web site for
mobile devices
Apple iOS
Android
What platforms are your targeting for your mobile
applications? (Choose all that apply)
2013
2012
2011

4.9%
2.8%
7.9%
17.9%
28.6%
59.6%
34.3%
2.1%
2.1%
2.3%
5.4%
11.2%
24.4%
40.1%
Don’t know
Dojo Mobile
SAP/Sybase Unwired Platform
Appcelerator Titanium
Sencha Touch
Apache Cordova/PhoneGap
JQuery/JQuery Mobile
Native SDKs and
development platforms
What mobile frameworks and platforms do you use? (Choose
all that apply)
2013
2012
MOBILE FRAMEWORKS
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WEB-BASED IDE

WEB-BASED IDE
23
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2.6%
10.7%
14.6%
35.4%
36.7%
I use a web-based IDE as part of my
normal development environment
I have experimented with a web-based
IDE but not on a regular basis
I'm interested but Web IDEs lack the
features of a full desktop IDE
I have no interest in a web-based IDE
I don’t know enough to have an opinion
What has been your experience of using a web-based IDE (ex.
Orion, Cloud 9, CodeEnvy, etc.)

WEB-BASED IDE
24
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35.8%
1.5%
1.8%
3.0%
7.8%
14.6%
22.2%
22.9%
26.2%
35.3%
Don’t do JS/HTML5 development
Brackets
Eclipse VJet
Emacs
Sublime
Vi
Text Editor
Eclipse JSDT
Chrome DevTools
Firefox Web Developer Tools
What developer tools do you use for doing
JS/HTML5/CSS web development?
(Choose all that apply)

ECLIPSE AND COMMUNITY
PARTICIPATION

OSS CORPORATE POLICY
1.6%
41.0%
35.4%
8.8%
13.1%
1.6%
40.1%
38.7%
8.7%
10.8%
0.60%
38.50%
39.50%
9.70%
11.70%
1.0%
40.8%
39.5%
8.0%
10.6%
Does not allow the use of any open
source software
Uses open source software, but
does not interact with open source
project communities in any way
Uses open source software and
contributes back (through bug
reports, code, resources) to at…
Contributes significant development
resources (contributors, committers
and/or maintainers, project…
Has a business model that relies on
open source software for its success
What best describes your organization's policy towards
the use of open source software? (Choose one.)
2013
2012
2011
2010
 Corporate policies remain consistent for last 4 years
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WHY CONTRIBUTE TO OPEN SOURCE
 67% of developers contribute or participate in open source
projects
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6.2%
11.2%
22.0%
24.8%
28.5%
33.4%
35.9%
36.3%
54.0%
5.8%
8.4%
17.6%
22.6%
32.9%
32.9%
33.0%
35.6%
46.9%
A good way to promote my…
Paid to contribute
Important for career…
Enjoy the interaction with my…
I don't contribute to any open…
I needed a feature or bug fix…
I believe in the FOSS…
It is a great way to learn…
Like to give back and support…
Why do you contribute or participate to an open
source project? (Choose all that apply.)
2013
2012

MOST ADMIRED COMPANIES
IN OPEN SOURCE
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What company do you admire/respect for their participation and
contributions to open source communities?
28.5%
21.3%
18.9%
Other Companies
Mentioned:
Mozilla, Eclipse, Apache, Oracle,
Canonical, GitHub, Sun

ECLIPSE VERSION ADOPTION
 Adoption of Eclipse 4.2 lags behind previous
releases
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3.6%
7.4%
15.8%
12.9%
56.0%
Eclipse 3.6 Helios
Eclipse 4.3 (Kepler
Milestone Builds)
Eclipse 3.7 (Indigo)
Eclipse 3.8 (Juno)
Eclipse 4.2 (Juno)
2013
What is the version of Eclipse you use most often? (Choose one.)
0.7%
2.3%
5.3%
10.9%
76.9%
Eclipse 3.4
(Ganymede)
Eclipse 3.5
(Galileo)
Eclipse 4.2 (Juno
Milestone Builds)
Eclipse 3.6
(Helios)
Eclipse 3.7
(Indigo)
2012

29%
52%
13%
5% 1%
2013
Very satisfied
Satisified
Neutral
Unsatisfied
Very
Unsatisified
SATISFACTION
 Overall satisfaction declined in 2013
 81% are very satisfied or satisfied compared to 90% in 2012
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39%
51%
8% 2% 0%
2012
Overall, how satisfied are you with Eclipse? (Choose one.)