North American software developers prefer MAC environment to Linux

Sina Science and Technology hearing Beijing time August 10 Morning News, market analysis agency Evans Data released a survey results, in North America's research and development environment, Apple Mac operating system has been more popular than Linux. According to the survey, of the 400 professional software developers interviewed in June, Windows is still ranked top of the research and development environment, using the number of respondents 80%. Mac operating system beyond Linux, the second seat, the number of users accounted for 7.9% of the respondents. Linux took the third place, with 5.6% of the respondents.　　The following are other important information from the survey report: Researchers believe that the development of mobile technology and cloud technology will be the top priority in the next three years.　　--44% respondents were actively involved in the development of multithreaded programming.　　--49% 's respondents said they supported the smartphone platform. --42% 's respondents intend to support tablet applications although the Mac OS has outgrown Linux in the development environment, the Mac OS has not replaced Linux as a research object. In terms of research and development, Linux uses more than twice times the number of people polled by the Mac operating system. (Puma)