What Tools and Languages are Most Widely Used?
What type of development tools and languages are most widely used by developers? Heres some insight taken from a study by the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG). Based on the IOUG survey, it looks like Oracle Development Tools are dominating the development landscape. The largest segment of Oracle shops use the Oracle Development Suite in their application development work, the survey states. Beyond Oracle toolsets, the picture is decidedly mixed. For example, about one of five also report they use Microsofts Visual Studio integrated development environment. About one out of 10 use Oracle Application Express (formerly HTML DB) for Web development, followed by the open source Eclipse toolkit. IBM WebSphere and the Eclipse project compete for fifth place. NetBeans, considered by many to be a direct competitor to Eclipse, is only at use among a small handful of respondents. Adoption of programming and scripting languages is also a mixed picture at Oracle sites, the survey finds. Most p