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Total Cost of Ownership: A Comparison of C/C++ and Java

Programming language preference is a favorite debate among developers. Because different languages offer different coding styles, as well as different resources and tools, choosing between languages like C/C++ and Java can come down to developers' personal preference and comfort. But for businesses looking to implement one of these languages, how...

Tags: Developer, Evans Data Corp., TCO, Language, Programming Language Preference, C/C++, Programming Languages, Roi/Tco, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Finance, Managerial Accounting

White papers 2007-06-01

Linux in the Mobile Space: Today and Tomorrow

The Linux platform has been recognized as a viable Open Source alternative for a variety of computing environments. It comes as a natural progression that Linux would also make great strides in the mobile space. According to industry market figures, close to a quarter of all smart-phones sold last year...

Tags: Mobile, Evans Data Corp., Linux Platform, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software

White papers 2006-08-01

Open source still fragmented

Evans Data has a new report out saying the open source market remains fragmented. The whole premise of the study shows just how little most analysts know about open source as a concept.The whole idea behind open source is to break down hierarchies. If you're really good, if you gain...

Tags: open source

Blog posts 2006-04-11

56.2% of software developers use open source components

Evans Data has found a rising trend toward including open source modules in software development world. While 38.1% said they used OSS modules in their applications in Spring of 2001, in the most recent survey, 56.2% said they had.

Tags: Development tools, Evans Data Corp., software

Blog posts 2005-07-17

46% of developers used C++ in fall of 2004

Evans Data has found that the percentage of developers using C++ has steadily declined over the last six years from 76% in the Spring 1998 to 46% in Autumn 2004. Forrester Research found that C/C++, VB or Java were used in production systems by 59, 61 and 66% of...

Tags: C/C++, Programming languages, C++, Evans Data Corp.

Blog posts 2005-04-22

C creator upbeat on its future

C creator upbeat on its futureUnrelated information makes a bad comparison..>> "C++ is bigger than ever," Stroustrup said. "There are more than 3 million C++ programmers. Everywhere I look there has been an uprising--more and more projects are using C++. > Data from analyst firm Evans Data, which...

Tags: C/C++, Programming languages, Evans Data Corp., Microsoft .NET, PHP, Microsoft Visual Basic, programming language, C, C++, Java

Discussion threads 2005-04-22

46% of developers used C++ in fall of 2004

Evans Data has found that the percentage of developers using C++ has steadily declined over the last six years from 76% in the Spring 1998 to 46% in Autumn 2004. Forrester Research found that C/C++, VB or Java were used in production systems by 59, 61 and 66% of...

Tags: C/C++, Programming languages, C++, Evans Data Corp.

Blog posts 2005-04-22

Evans Data: J2EE vs .NET

Evans Data found that roughly the same percentage of developers - about 32% - are using .Net and J2EE for building Web services applications.

Tags: Application servers, Middleware, .NET, Java, Enterprise software, Evans Data Corp., J2EE, Microsoft .NET

Blog posts 2003-09-17

Additional Resources

Is Google working on the synchronization problem?

ReadWriteWeb has a post up about the fact that Zoho has added offline access to Zoho Mail using Gears. Zoho continues to do a really good job of innovating when it comes to Ajax-based RIAs. They were very early to the game in creating offline support for Zoho Docs before...

Tags: Google Inc., Rich Internet Application, Microsoft Corp., ReadWriteWeb, Zoho Mail, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Wall Street: MSFT should buy Yahoo, consider RIM

A Wall Street investor has suggested that the stars may be aligned just right for Microsoft to make another run at Yahoo, this time for $22 per share. Investment fund Mithras Capital, which owns more than 1.9 million shares, or 0.14 percent, of Yahoo, said Microsoft has a window of...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Financial Accounting, Search, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Finance, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Is OpenOffice good enough?

Yes. OK, obviously there's more to this story than my tongue-in-cheek answer. This came up after one of our supercool, power user secretaries (who is an Office 2003/2007 wiz) ran a training session for the other secretaries in the district. The other secretaries are largely...

Tags: Secretary, Training, OpenOffice, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Forrester: Credit crunch may freeze tech services projects

Forrester Research in a report is confirming that the credit crunch is beginning to hit technology services firms. The extent of the damage is unclear, but IBM's lower-than-expected third quarter revenue its earnings are stronger than expected may indicate something worse is afoot. Forrester's...

Tags: Service Provider, IBM Corp., Forrester Research Inc., Business Services, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Virtualization 2.0 panel recording from NGDC is available

Back in August, I had the opportunity to moderate a panel at the Next Generation Data Center Conference, entitled "Virtualization 2.0".The panel included Albert Lee, Chief Strategy Officer and Board Director of xkoto, Greg O'Connor, CEO of Trigence, Jonah Paransky, Marketing VP of StackSafe and Lawrence Stein, Engineering VP of...

Tags: Panel, StackSafe, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Corporate Governance, Hardware, Storage, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-10-10

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture

The most striking thing about the appliance computing applications market is that most customers have one or two global applications and a range of special purpose stuff accumulated and refined over many years - the opposite of what happens in data processing where thousands of tiny applications get strung...

Tags: IBM iSeries, Data Center, Contact Management, Data Centers, Sales Strategy, Storage, Servers, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Data Management, Sales, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Image Copyrighter Pro (zip)

Image copyrighter takes the copyright information you provide and converts that into binary data then saves it to an image, thus making your image digitally signed. There are very few programs that know how to read this data from an image however, this way of storing data with an image...

Tags: Data, Image

Software downloads 2008-10-10

easyStock DataGenerator (exe)

With easyStock DataGenerator the user can produce random generated stock price data. The data looks like real stock prices but is not. User may use this type of data to test trading systems against 100% unknown data. Up to 50000 data periods are possible (end of day = 200 years)....

Tags: Stock Price, Stock, Data, easyStockDater, Output Format, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance

Software downloads 2008-10-10

easyStock Game (exe)

easyStockGame is a stock trading simulator. Use it to compete against real time data. Use it to check indicators and or you skills with indicators. Try various included end of day data to trade for swing and trend trading. The user can specify and save commission costs, slippage, profit stop,...

Tags: Indicator, Commission, easyStockDater, easyStock Game, easyStockGame, Sales Force Management, Sales

Software downloads 2008-10-10

EasyStock Info (exe)

easyStockInfo from easyStockDater is a stock company information data base. The user can search stocks by entering the ticker or sliding a speed slider. The database contains following data fields: company name, ticker, sector, industry group, industry, sub industry, associated index, associated index ticker symbol, main exchange, country of origin,...

Tags: Stock, Ticker, Industry, easyStockDater, Investment, Finance

Software downloads 2008-10-10

easyStock Logger (exe)

With easyStockLogger from easyStockDater the user can generate automated keyboard profiles, which can be used to automated many repetitive task, such as login to a Web based email account, login to bank accounts, trading accounts. The profiles are displayed in simple to select list. Once a profile is generated, the...

Tags: Profile, easyStockDater, easyStock Logger, Keyboards, E-mail, Hardware, Peripherals, Online Communications

Software downloads 2008-10-10

SBSH SafeWallet - PC edition (zip)

Store all your private and important information in one secure and organized application. SafeWallet is the most secure data storage application. Use SafeWallet to store credit cards information, online passwords, bank account info, and registration codes. This is the PC version of the application, including an application designed for Windows...

Tags: Bank, Application, Data Storage, PC, SBSH Mobile Software, SafeWallet, Storage Management, Desktops, Financial Services, Storage, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-10-10