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  • Report details
  • 19 Figures
  • 0 Tables
  • Executive Summary
    • Report Conclusions
  • Introduction
    • Research Objectives
  • Research Findings
    • In Enterprise Application Development, Build versus Buy Is a Difficult Decision
    • Client-side Language Trends
      • Client-side Languages Favor the Web Platform and Java
      • Client-side Framework and Platform Use Is Highly Fragmented
    • Server-side Language Trends
      • JavaScript Trumps Java
    • High Productivity Development Environments Favor BPM
  • Conclusions
    • Research Implications for Technology Vendors
      • Polyglot Language Support Is the Path Forward
      • Use the Evolution of Web Platform Tools and Technology to Help Guide Product…
      • Focus on Abstraction to Ensure SMB Needs Are Met
    • Research Implications for IT Professionals
      • PaaS Levels the Playing Field
      • Use the Evolution of Web Platform Tools and Technology to Help Guide Product…
      • High Productivity Development Environments Help SMBs Punch above Their Weight
  • Research Methodology
    • Language Categories
    • Language Analysis
      • Language by Frequency of Use Calculations
      • Language by Age Category Calculations
  • Respondent Demographics
    • Respondents’ Familiarity with Platform-as-a-servic​e Technologies
    • Respondents by Job Role or Title
    • Respondents by Level of Purchasing Involvement
    • Respondents by Age
    • Respondents by Years of Experience
    • Respondents by Number of Employees
    • Respondents by Industry
    • Respondents by Annual Revenue
    • Respondents by Length of Organizations’ Existence
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ESG Research Report: Platform-as-a-service Language Use Study
ESG Research Report
Feb 12, 2016
As part of ESG’s application development and deployment (AD&D) research, this survey was primarily focused on understanding interest in platform-as-a-service (PaaS). There were 4 specific objectives in fielding this survey:

1. Quantify PaaS adoption
2. Understand the level of satisfaction with PaaS and why
3. Identify what PaaS features are most important to IT managers and developers
4. Examine what languages, frameworks, and development environments are most preferred by developers

This report will examine the fourth objective: what languages are in use by developers who are either Paas users or evaluators. Other reports will examine PaaS adoption, satisfaction, and feature preference.

ESG surveyed 326 IT professionals and application developers representing predominantly midmarket enterprise (100 to 999 employees) and large enterprise-class (1,000 employees or more) organizations in North America. The sample included 176 application developers and 150 IT managers. The language use questions in this survey were only administered to application developers.

It also needs to be understood that the respondents to this survey are either PaaS users or PaaS evaluators. A PaaS user is an enterprise that currently uses a PaaS. A PaaS evaluator is an enterprise that currently does not use a PaaS but is actively evaluating a variety of PaaS products for intended use in the next 18 months. This means that the language use questions analyzed in this report reflect the behavior of enterprises that are either using PaaS or likely to use PaaS. We can speculate that enterprises committed to PaaS represent a more technologically savvy segment of the overall population of enterprises that engage in the development of custom applications.

This language section of this survey was designed to answer the following language use questions:

• What client-side languages are in use for application development?
• What client-side platforms are used for application development?
• What server-side languages are in use for application development?
• What high productivity application development environments are in use?

Survey participants represented a wide range of industries including manufacturing, financial services, health care, communications and media, retail, government, and business services. For more details, including how we screened respondents, please see the Research Methodology and Respondent Demographics sections of this report.
 
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Table of Contents
  • Executive Summary
    • Report Conclusions
  • Introduction
    • Research Objectives
  • Research Findings
    • In Enterprise Application Development, Build versus Buy Is a Difficult Decision
    • Client-side Language Trends
      • Client-side Languages Favor the Web Platform and Java
      • Client-side Framework and Platform Use Is Highly Fragmented
    • Server-side Language Trends
      • JavaScript Trumps Java
    • High Productivity Development Environments Favor BPM
  • Conclusions
    • Research Implications for Technology Vendors
      • Polyglot Language Support Is the Path Forward
      • Use the Evolution of Web Platform Tools and Technology to Help Guide Product Development
      • Focus on Abstraction to Ensure SMB Needs Are Met
    • Research Implications for IT Professionals
      • PaaS Levels the Playing Field
      • Use the Evolution of Web Platform Tools and Technology to Help Guide Product Adoption
      • High Productivity Development Environments Help SMBs Punch above Their Weight
  • Research Methodology
    • Language Categories
    • Language Analysis
      • Language by Frequency of Use Calculations
      • Language by Age Category Calculations
  • Respondent Demographics
    • Respondents’ Familiarity with Platform-as-a-service Technologies
    • Respondents by Job Role or Title
    • Respondents by Level of Purchasing Involvement
    • Respondents by Age
    • Respondents by Years of Experience
    • Respondents by Number of Employees
    • Respondents by Industry
    • Respondents by Annual Revenue
    • Respondents by Length of Organizations’ Existence
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