Dave Bouwman has done an informal “2008 Geospatial Developer Survey“. 320 people took the time and have completed the survey. He has now published some results.
I’ll sumerize some interesting points:
The role of people, who participated:
His statement:
The split across titles was somewhat interesting - almost even between “Analysts who write code”, and those who consider themselves “GIS Software Developers”, with “Software Engineer” trailing slightly. I see this as a progression from “getting things done” coding towards more “built to last” coding.
Primary Development Language:
The idea of this question was to get a feel for what you most commonly work with. “.NET” was the prominent platform with a 61% share.
Here is how the “other” broke out by count of times they were mentioned. As Dave I’m also surprised that there are still people using VB6 and VBA.
Use of ESRI products:
This is an interesting resut showing the dominace of ESRI in the GIS community.
Link: http://blog.davebouwman.net/2008/05/27/GeospatialDeveloperSurveyResults.aspx
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