SANTA CRUZ, CA, October 3, 2005 - Wireless developers are not satisfied with some of their most important tools according to Evans Data’s Fall 2005 Wireless Development Survey. The greatest disparity between tool satisfaction and importance was found among Testing and Debugging Tools with 78% of developers saying they are “extremely” or “very” important but only 34% of developers say they are “excellent” or “very good”. Sixty-three percent of developers say Wireless Emulation Tools are “extremely” or “very” important but only 28% of developers say they are “excellent” or “very good” and 18% of wireless developers indicate emulation tools need work.

“Wireless developers see a lot of room for improvement in their tools and it’s a message that tool makers should heed in order to accelerate and enhance wireless application development and deployment,” said John Andrews, Evans Data’s Chief Operating Officer. “The state of tools in wireless development represents a big opportunity for any vendor willing to step up, develop a killer tool set and take over the space.”

Other findings from the September 2005 survey of more than 500 wireless developers:

• Smart phones (the convergence of PDAs and mobile phones) are now the fourth most likely wireless devices to be targeted for deployment, a virtual tie with mobile phones.
• A quarter of wireless developers rely on Linux for hosting and deploying server-side applications, second only to Windows Server 2003.
• Sixty-six percent of wireless developers target Java in some form or another. Java ME (previously known as J2ME) is targeted by 56% of developers. The Asia/Pacific region targets Java more than any other region at 71%.
• More than half of wireless developers, 52%, use open source or Linux tools in their wireless development.

Evans Data Corporation provides regularly updated IT industry market intelligence based on in-depth surveys of the global developer population. Evans' syndicated research includes surveys focused on developers in a wide variety of subjects.

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