These numbers were posted on Ian Skerrett's blog (see the post for exact figures) and include all the flavors of the platform. Naturally, these numbers does not represent the exact number of Eclipse users for some reasons:
- Personally, I downloaded Europa more than once and in several flavors. I did at least 5 downloads.
- In large organizations, usually one IT guy downloads the version and then distributes it to all the developers.
- Many people use Eclipse distributes like BEA Workshop, IBM Rational Application Developer and MyEclipse IDE. These people do not download Eclipse directly from eclipse.org. For example, MyEclipse claims to have over 0.5 million users.
However, this is somewhat consistent with IDC's estimates from last September, that the number of Eclipse users is about 2.27 million.
On a different note, it's interesting to see how the downloads are divided among the platforms.
I'm not sure what's the exact figures when comparing the percentage of each of the platforms, but it looks like there are not a lot of Mac users. It's even more alarming when considering that most corporate developers are not working on Macs and these are larger numbers of people who do not download directly.
Well, as I claimed in the past, I think Eclipse works better on the Mac. I promised a "drag race" between the platforms and I'll try to find some time to do it in the near future.
