Open-source developers’ heads are in the cloud
Evans Data has published the results of a 360-person survey suggesting that 40 percent of developers working on open-source projects plan to deploy applications via the cloud, as OStatic reports.
The big winner here? Google. Twenty-nine percent of developers surveyed plan to use Google App Engine to deploy their applications, while 15 percent will look to Amazon.com.
Microsoft, IBM, Salesforce.com, and other cloud initiatives? They apparently don't make the grade, netting far less developer attention.
Other interesting data:
John Andrews, CEO of Evans Data, ascribes this shift to cloud computing to a desire to "reduce infrastructure costs but simultaneously increase...computational capabilities."
This makes sense, but one thing that Evans Data should have asked about is licensing. Are these open-source developers worried about keeping their code free (as in freedom, not cost) through SaaS-savvy licenses like the Affero GPL?
