Eclipse Survey 2012 - The results are in

The Eclipse Foundation has published the results of its annual survey of developers about their usage of Eclipse and other open source tools. Some of the surprising results in "The Eclipse Open Source Developer Report 2012" ...

This is the fourth year the Foundation has commissioned a survey of developers using open source tools.

"One of the challenges with open source is little direct contact with your customer base," Ian Skerrett, director of marketing for the Eclipse Foundation, told ADTmag. "Finding out what people are doing can be a bit of a challenge. The survey gives us -- and companies building commercial products around Eclipse -- a better understanding of what the Eclipse community is doing."

The Eclipse community was invited to participate in the survey between April 23 and May 15 of this year. Skerrett says the Foundation promoted the survey primarily through social media (Facebook, Twitter) and online forums.