The State Of Application Development In Enterprises And SMBs

Forrester surveyed 1,078 technology decision-makers at North American and European enterprises and 1,126 technology decision-makers at North American small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) to understand the state of application development. What did we learn? New software projects will constitute a larger portion of enterprise and SMB software budgets than in recent years — 33%, up from 25% in 2006 — and new software development projects will make up between one-fifth and one-third of the overall software budget. But platform and infrastructure software purchase intentions increased only slightly from last year, and plans to make first-time purchases remain low. When it comes to platform and language adoption, Java/J2EE and .NET remain dominant, although adoption varies significantly by region and company size. And .NET shops also continue to demonstrate far more language and platform homogeneity than their Java and J2EE counterparts.