by: V3.co.uk
A survey of 400 developers in China, India, Eastern Europe, and Latin America has shown that Microsoft’s SQL Server is the most popular database application in use, but its open source competitor MySQL is gaining ground.
Over 50 per cent of those surveyed reported that they were running SQL Server, with use particularly strong in China and Latin America. MySQL's popularity is however growing and it was used by 46 per cent of companies and most popular in the Indian market.
Microsoft’s Visual Basic programming language was also popular in the emerging markets, with Latin America and China leading the way, but it is less popular in Eastern Europe.
The research also found that development teams were typically largest in India and smallest in Latin America and Eastern Europe. 80 per cent of Latin American development teams had fewer than six members, compared to under 30 per cent in India.
"Even in this economic downturn the emerging markets represent a significant opportunity for ISV's as we see developer population growth being more than double that of the rest of world," said John Andrews, president of Evans Data, which carried out the research.
"However, the approach to these markets has to be tailored given the vast differences we find with their developer demographics and consequently the associate differences in their technology and services adoption.”
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