In a previous post SharePoint Developers’ Environment Virtualization I had conducted a quick survey about SharePoint development environment virtualization to get some insights about it, here the survey results.
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1. What is your virtualization product
VMWare wins with 48.5%
then
Hyper-V and Virtual PC comes second with 18.2%
2. You use dedicated or shared environment with team?
84.8% of developers use dedicated environment for their development
3. What is the main architecture of your development environment?
Almost 32 bit and 64 bit shares the development environment with 51.5% to 48.5%
4. What is your host Operating System?
Windows Server 2008 R2 wins as host OS with 21.2%
5. What is typically your Guest Operating System?
For guest OS Windows Server 2003 and 2008 share the first place with 24.2% then in second place comes Windows Server 2008 R2
however you can notice the about 30% of Guest OS is desktop Windows (XP, Vista and 7).
Here is my notices
- VMWare wins a virtualization software
- Around 50% uses 64 bit environment
- Around 30% uses desktop Windows as guest OS.
I see these 3 points are natural result of Microsoft lacking a virtualization software supports 64 bit on their desktop Windows, so developers moved to VMWare to develop on 64 bit environment!!!
I would to hear your comments and notices about the survey results.
Thanks to SurveyMonkey.com for hosting my survey.