Java Developers Choice of Operating Systems

Tuesday, April 29. 2008

Just some observations from JAX 2008, the great conference for enterprise Java developers on their choice of operating systems...

About 40% of presenters of talks I attended used Apple notebooks. I haven't noticed that anyone used Linux as choice for his operating system. There was also a very high amount of Apple users among the 2000 attendees. Around 10% used Apple systems. In contrast I have just seen a couple of people running Linux.

I was pretty surprised by this. I would have expected that there would be much more Java developers using Linux. Especially since there is still no Java 6 for Mac OS X is available since a few days and after I've read this posting in the blog of Vladimir Dobriakov, where he talks about his experiences with Mac OS X and his switch back to Linux.

But maybe a lot of the attendees use Linux just on their workstations and not on their laptops.



Posted by Carsten Schlipf Filed under Development, Java, Linux.
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