SILVER SPRING, USA: Sonatype, the company that is transforming software development, today announced the findings from its annual Software Development Infrastructure survey.

The study, based on detailed answers from more than 1,600 software developers, architects and managers across all industries, company sizes and geographic regions, identified two important issues for corporate software development organizations.

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The study found that while open source development infrastructure is widely adopted, integration issues limit developer productivity and team efficiency. Open source components are also widely used as building blocks for software development, but corporations have only limited control over how they are selected or utilized.

“Our survey results confirm what we’ve been hearing from our customers for some time,” said Charles Gold, chief marketing officer at Sonatype.

“Enterprise adoption is there, in fact, it’s huge. The real issue is how to maximize productivity and reuse without incurring unnecessary risk. This is our focus at Sonatype,” he added.

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Development organizations standardize on open source infrastructure, integration issues persist

According to the survey, open source development infrastructure is rapidly becoming the standard, with 83 percent of respondents stating that tools such as Maven, Maven Central, Nexus, Hudson and Eclipse are widely used in their environments. Using open source infrastructure helps to improve productivity and reduce costs, but developers cite the lack of tool integration as their biggest challenge.

Key findings include:

* Nearly 50 percent have already standardized on open source tooling
* An additional 27 percent say its widely used, though not yet a corporate standard
* 65 percent say nothing stands in the way of adopting open source development infrastructure
* 56 percent say lack of integration between tools is their biggest complaint with their development infrastructure
* An additional 25 percent say their tools are not well integrated with the Eclipse IDE