Microsoft Visual Studio Shocker
July 6, 2009
I get a copy (no charge because I don’t subscribe to print publications any longer) of Visual Studio Magazine. The May 2009 issue arrived on Friday, May 29, and I was flipping through the articles. I scan for info about Microsoft’s many search systems, but my eye landed on page 18. A table, reproduced below, provided some information derived from a poll of 369 developers. The idea was to get some info about Dot Net programming tools. I had heard that Dot Net was a sore spot with some developers due to performance problems, and I have only isolated examples of unacceptable performance from Dot Net centric applications. Throwing hardware at the problem seems to be the way out of the woods for speed issues.
Here’s a scan of the table, and I have converted some of the items to summary bullets for readability. You may be able to locate the original material online at the Visual Studio Magazine here. I haven’t had much luck locating stories that are not super positive, but your mileage may be different.
Here’s the table from page 18 of the May 2009 issue:
Now, let me highlight several data points:
- The sample reported that 31 percent of the organizations are moving forward with new projects
- About one third of the respondents see a tough development market in the second half of 2009
- 45 percent of the sample reported developer fatigue due to Microsoft’s technology upgrades
- 60 percent of the sample reported that their organizations are * not * developing specifically for the Windows 7 client operating system.
I like the “developer fatigue” angle. Google’s approach seems to be to allow developers to use what they know, thus making some effort to reduce developer fatigue. The question in my mind is, “How many developers may throw up their hands and just go with the GOOG?” That’s a $64 question.
Stephen Arnold, July 6, 2009
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