So Brian and I completed our webinar today (thanks for attending!) and we took advantage of the option to customize our questions at the end.
Here are the results:
- Do you develop plug-ins or plan to within the next 6 months?
- 87% (75) – Yes
- 8% (7) – No
- 5% (4) – Don’t Know
- Do you build RCP applications or plan to within the next 6 months?
- 64% (52) – Yes
- 22% (18) – No
- 14% (11) – Don’t Know
- What version of Eclipse are you using today?
- 16% (14) – 3.4
- 76% (65) – 3.3
- 7% (6) – 3.2
- 1% (1) – 3.1
- 0% (0) – 3.0
- What version of Eclipse are you shipping products on?
- 10% (8) – 3.4
- 62% (48) – 3.3
- 8% (6) – 3.2
- 0% (0) – 3.1
- 0% (0) – 3.0
I always had a personal interest in how quickly products adopt new releases of Eclipse. The problem with most products is that they are on different release schedules (ie., 18-24 months) compared to the Eclipse 12 month cycle. The challenge is to decide when to move up and if you decide to skip a release, how do you portray that decision to your customers if they complain they can’t use some cool “Paul Webster” (eg., org.eclipse.ui.menus) feature from the latest Eclipse? I also wonder if the circadian release cycle of Eclipse forces other teams to become a bit more agile when it comes to releasing products instead of being stuck in that crappy 24 month cycle.
On a side note, I feel sorry for the one pour soul using Eclipse 3.1 according to the webinar stats 🙁