This series started in 1998 focusing on language, tool and technology adoption and intentions among North American developers. Attitudes towards Linux and Linux adoption are also measured and trended from 1999. Language use is measured and trended for C, C++, C#, Java, VB, VB.Net, and XML.

The survey explores: demographics, platform use and migrations, language usage, Web services, security, Linux and open source software, Java development, general internet development, architecture and technology adoption, software development requirements, development tools, development issues and modeling configurations and managing applications.

Conducted biannually, 430+ respondents