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A recent Evans Data survey showed that the adoption rate of Eclipse has more than doubled in the EMEA region, raising the Eclipse IDE (integrated development environment) as a challenge to Microsoft Visual Studio.Net among developers there.

The new C# programming language and the Microsoft .Net framework have been gaining popularity among developers and managers alike. Does this new technology leave open source proponents out in the cold? Not anymore -- with the coming of age of Mono and SharpDevelop, a reliable set of open source tools is now available to allow the development of C# and .Net applications on Windows and on Linux.