[SP-pm] Analyst: New developer demographics favor Linux, PHP

[Nelson Ferraz]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer might agree with The Who that "the kids
are alright," but he's unlikely to appreciate their changing taste in
programming languages and operating systems. But then, neither will
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.

After all, according to at the Forrester analyst Jeffrey Hammond,
speaking here Thursday at the 2010 Palmetto Open Source Conference,
the rising generation of developers are more familiar with Ruby and
PHP than Java or .Net, and increasingly opt to develop and deploy
enterprise and Web applications on Linux rather than Windows or Unix.
(...)

Enterprise CIOs are slowly getting the message. But then, the message
really isn't for them. Hence, while only 40 percent of this older
crowd surveyed by Forrester acknowledged using open source, roughly 80
percent of the developers surveyed within these same companies said
they're using open source.

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