Microsoft Developers Turn to Linux
According to a recent study by Evans Data Corporation, more than a quarter of European developers using Visual Studio .Net as their primary development environment have written an application for Linux, and more than a third are likely to write a Linux application next year.
Developers using Microsoft's popular Visual Studio .Net software engineering suite were today offered a plug-in that allows them to code Web applications for Linux .
Referred to as Grasshopper, the freely available Visual MainWin for J2EE Developer Edition is designed to link Visual Studio development to Linux and J2EE server deployments.