In a survey covering developers in regions such as Brazil, Russia, Eastern Europe, India, and China, 69 percent of respondents said they are using open-source software, which is up from 59 percent six months ago.

The Eclipse open-source platform has had high adoption in countries like India and Brazil. Linux development has increased in many emerging markets as well.

In the area of Web development, 36 percent of developers in emerging markets are using AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML). The figure was 21 percent six months ago.

While open source is growing in popularity in these markets, all is not lost for commercial software. Forty-seven percent of Indian developers expect to be upgrading to Windows Vista as a primary or secondary host operating system next year.

In the security area, 87 percent of Chinese respondents experienced at least one security breach at their company in 2006.