Java IDE Market Share Survey

From: Roelof Vuurboom <roelof.vuurboom_at_qa-systems.com>
Date: 8 Oct 2003 07:00:13 -0700
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QA Systems has carried out a survey over the last six weeks in which more than 1400 developers, software architects and sofware managers world wide were asked which Java IDE they are currently using.

According to the data received Eclipse from Eclipse.org currently has the largest market share with 45%, followed by Borland JBuilder with 16% and IDEA IntelliJ with 10%.

For a full list of the results in a bar chart as well as how the survey was carried out see Java IDE Market Share Survey at www.qa-systems.com.


QA Systems - The Software Health Company™ - is focused on improving its customers' software health. QA Systems develops software tools to assess, support, monitor and control the health (quality) of software applications developed by its customers both from both a preventative viewpoint as a diagnostic viewpoint.


QStudio for Java is a sophisticated code quality assessment and coding standards tool for Java development detecting potential software defects at compile time. It offers the ability to significantly reduce code review effort by automating a major portion of the code inspection and coding standards process.

QStudio for Java integrates seamlessly with leading Java IDE's including JDeveloper, Eclipse, WebSphere Studio, JBuilder and VisualAge for Java (IntelliJ, NetBeans, Sun ONE in October 2003) and runs on Windows, Solaris and Linux.

The combination of world class code analysis capabilities with over 200 rules, a unique and powerful built-in ISO standard software quality model allowing code quality to be expressed in quantifiable high level quality concepts, the broadest IDE coverage in the industry and a seamless upgrade to Enterprise capabilities all provided at no cost to the Java development community allows QA Systems to continue to establish its market leadship in this space.

The single user QStudio for Java Pro is available free of charge to the entire Java development community. Developers may use the Pro freely within or without their corporation. A corporation is free to deploy the Pro at no cost. Received on Wed Oct 08 2003 - 16:00:13 CEST

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