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Popularity of .NET is Grinding Java's Market Share, Finds Info-Tech Research Group Survey | November 28, 2007
LONDON, ON, Nov. 28 /CNW/ - Despite commonly held assumptions in the developer community, Microsoft's .NET platform is more popular than Java among enterprises of all sizes and industries, according to recent research from Info-Tech Research Group. The research study explored the relative prevalence of Java and .NET across different types of enterprises, revealing that Microsoft's .NET platform has gained considerable market share, becoming the favorite of most enterprises.
"Microsoft has been able to gather an incredible amount of market momentum," said George Goodall, senior research analyst with Info-Tech Research Group. "By taking leadership positions in both the Integrated Development Environment market with Visual Studio and the portal market with SharePoint, Microsoft is driving uptake of the .NET platform at the expense of Java."
Info-Tech's research identified that almost half (49 per cent) of all enterprises focus primarily on .NET with an additional 12 per cent focused exclusively on .NET. That is in comparison to only 20 per cent of enterprises that focus primarily on Java with a mere additional 3 per cent that standardize solely on it.
Other key survey findings include:
- Enterprise revenue (as a measure of company size) was not a limiting factor to .NET's popularity.
- Prevalence of .NET was higher among enterprises that identified themselves as innovators than those that self-identified as focused on cost-control, where alternatives such as legacy systems or open- source solutions were the favored platforms.
- In addition to reigning supreme in individual client application environments, .NET dominates among architecturally complex environments that support diverse, multiple and complex network applications, a niche area that Java was originally created to support.
Goodall notes that .NET will continue to lead inthe application development platform market, but cautions against counting Java out of the game just yet. Microsoft's .NET may emerge as a means of stitching together diverse applications, but the immense amount of Java product code will remain in the tradition of other legacy systems such as COBOL and RPG.
About Info-Tech Research Group
With a paid membership of over 21,000 worldwide, Info-Tech Research Group (http://www.infotech.com/) is the global leader in providing tactical, practical Information Technology research and analysis. Info-Tech has a ten-year history of delivering quality research and is one of North America's fastest growing full-service IT analyst firms.
For further information: For interviews with Info-Tech Research Group, contact Info-Tech's PR team: Shelley Grandy at (905) 866-2656 or Mandy Merryweather at 1-888-670-8889.
© 2005 CNW Group Ltd, all rights reserved
"Microsoft has been able to gather an incredible amount of market momentum," said George Goodall, senior research analyst with Info-Tech Research Group. "By taking leadership positions in both the Integrated Development Environment market with Visual Studio and the portal market with SharePoint, Microsoft is driving uptake of the .NET platform at the expense of Java."
Info-Tech's research identified that almost half (49 per cent) of all enterprises focus primarily on .NET with an additional 12 per cent focused exclusively on .NET. That is in comparison to only 20 per cent of enterprises that focus primarily on Java with a mere additional 3 per cent that standardize solely on it.
Other key survey findings include:
- Enterprise revenue (as a measure of company size) was not a limiting factor to .NET's popularity.
- Prevalence of .NET was higher among enterprises that identified themselves as innovators than those that self-identified as focused on cost-control, where alternatives such as legacy systems or open- source solutions were the favored platforms.
- In addition to reigning supreme in individual client application environments, .NET dominates among architecturally complex environments that support diverse, multiple and complex network applications, a niche area that Java was originally created to support.
Goodall notes that .NET will continue to lead inthe application development platform market, but cautions against counting Java out of the game just yet. Microsoft's .NET may emerge as a means of stitching together diverse applications, but the immense amount of Java product code will remain in the tradition of other legacy systems such as COBOL and RPG.
About Info-Tech Research Group
With a paid membership of over 21,000 worldwide, Info-Tech Research Group (http://www.infotech.com/) is the global leader in providing tactical, practical Information Technology research and analysis. Info-Tech has a ten-year history of delivering quality research and is one of North America's fastest growing full-service IT analyst firms.
For further information: For interviews with Info-Tech Research Group, contact Info-Tech's PR team: Shelley Grandy at (905) 866-2656 or Mandy Merryweather at 1-888-670-8889.
© 2005 CNW Group Ltd, all rights reserved
