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Ruby on the Rise in Brazil, New Evans Data Survey Shows

Business Wire, August 21, 2007

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- Developers in Brazil expect their use of the Ruby scripting language to double in the next year, according to the newest Emerging Markets Development Survey of over 400 developers in Brazil, China, India and Eastern Europe. Although 15.6% of developers in Brazil use Ruby today, 33% expect to use it next year. Ruby use is currently strongest amongst the emerging markets in China, with 20% using it today, but only minor growth is expected during the coming year.

"Ruby has been creating a sensation in the development world because of its object-oriented nature, good exception handling and simple, elegant ease of use." said John Andrews, CEO of Evans Data Corp. "That combination is very appealing to developers in emerging markets, and we foresee Ruby use surpassing the use of several other scripting languages in the near future."

Javascript is the most commonly used scripting language in emerging markets as well as elsewhere. Over 80% of Chinese developers report using Javascript some of the time, 76% using it in India, 71% using it in Eastern Europe, and 69% in Brazil. However, little or no growth is expected in these areas.

Other findings from this in-depth survey released last week include:

* Use of PHP, which is used by a third of developers in India, is expected to grow fastest in that country

* One-third of developers in emerging markets are currently using virtualization or expect to in the next six months, with the strongest uptake in Brazil and China.

* China has by far the worst security experience in the BRIC countries, with 90% reporting an incident within the last year.

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Evans Data Corporation provides regularly updated IT industry market intelligence based on in-depth surveys of the global developer population. Evans' syndicated research includes surveys focused on developers in a wide variety of subjects.