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July 1, 2009
Pair of Third Parties Validates IBM's App Dev Strategy
IBM is reporting that analyst firm Gartner has ranked IBM as the worldwide leader in the application development software space, while Evans Data Corp. found that app dev users were most pleased with IBM in its "Users' Choice: 2009 Software Development Platform" survey.
More specifically, Gartner named IBM the worldwide market share leader in application development based on total software revenue in 2008. This is the eighth consecutive year that IBM continues to lead in this space, IBM says. According to the independent Gartner report, IBM leads the industry with 27.1 percent share in 2008, growing 7.9 percent as compared to the overall segment's growth of 4 percent. Gartner reports the total worldwide market for application development in 2008 was $7.3 billion.
IBM Rational tools also achieved "top honors" in the annual Evans Data Corp. Software Development Platform User Satisfaction survey, IBM reports. Rational was ranked higher than development tool offerings from several competitors, including Microsoft, Oracle, and Sun. The survey was conducted this spring and polled 1,200 worldwide developers. For the first time in four years, Evans Data Corp. expanded the scope of their user satisfaction survey beyond an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) study to instead rate a broader array of development tools, IBM says.
The Gartner report is available for sale, and the Evans Data Corp. is free but requires registration.
Posted by cmaxcer at July 1, 2009 10:23 AM
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