May « 2009 « Ian Skerrett

May « 2009 « Ian Skerrett: "Insight #5 – Subversion is huge in this community. I knew Subversion was popular but not this popular. 57.5% said they use Subversion as their primary SCM tool, CVS was second at 20%. No other product dominated a category in the survey results.

Ironically, when I hear people complain about Eclipse, the quality of the current Subversion support is high on the list of complaints. There really seems to be an opportunity to satisfy this large user community.

Insight #4 – Oracle DB is very popular in the community. Oracle DB was virtually tied for first place with MySQL at 28%. I expected to see MySQL do well but not tied with Oracle. It is also somewhat timely due to the Oracle acquisition of Sun/MySQL.

Insight #3 – Atlassian JIRA is very popular. I don’t follow bug tracking solutons that closely but I knew Atlassian JIRA was a popular solution. I didn’t realize it was so popular. It tied for top spot with bugzilla.

Also, kudos to TRAC and Mantis for placing third and fourth, even though they were not on the list of options. Enough people specifying them in the other category. I obviously messed up not having them in the list of options."