SANTA CRUZ, USA: Over 60 percent of developers in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region have made progress towards delivering SOA applications according to Evans Data’s EMEA Development Survey report released last week to subscribers. 

Although only 7.7 percent have fully deployed SOA applications, 32 percent have deployed at least some SOA components.

“EMEA continues to move rapidly to incorporate SOA components in whole or part with deployment doubling from one year ago,” said John Andrews, president and CEO of Evans Data. "However, wider adoption is being impeded due to cost, complexity and overall lack of corporate priority.”

Other highlights from the survey include:

* Currently 71 percent of EMEA developers say they use managed code and 30 percent say all their code is written in managed languages such as C# and Java.
* Microsoft SQL Server is the most commonly used SQL database, cited by over 46 percent of developers.
* VMware is perceived of as the leading provider of virtualization tools by EMEA developers, cited by 49 percent of developers.

The biannual survey of over 400 EMEA software developers measures major technology shifts and adoption patterns for a wide range of topics including scripting language use, 3GL language use such as C++, C#, and Java, platform targeting and migration, and other technology adoption including cloud, web services, SOA, parallel programming, and agile development trends.