Corporate Application Development in NA & Europe

Summary from Forrester Research survey of 526 North American and 270 European companies (multiple responses accepted)

“For custom-developed applications, which development platforms do you use?”

	N.A. %	Europe %
Microsoft .NET	68%	52%
Mainframe or midrange platforms	45%	34%
Proprietary 4GLs	27%	19%
Java, Java EE, J2EE	48%	47%
Rich interface in a browser	38%	36%
Open Source frameworks	15%	16%

Source: Forrester Research, Enterprise And SMB Software Survey, North America And Europe, Q3 2007