Wednesday, June 4, 2008

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