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An Evans Data survey of 1,200 developers, 400 of which are enterprise developers, found that 56% of enterprise developers already use schemaless databases and 63% plan to use one in the next two years. Adoption is particularly strong in the APAC countries. Among the general developer community, only 43% of respondents plan to use NoSQL in the next two years. Sponsor A few other findings from the survey, according to the announcement: Although Mac OS is now more popular than Linux as a development desktop environment, Windows continues to dominate with over 80% using some version of Windows as their primary platform. Almost 40% of North American developers are now working on apps for a wireless device. Eighty percent of North American developers expect to be writing multi-threaded apps in the next two years. More NoSQL tools and services targeting enterprises have been announced in the past few months, including EMC's Hadoop appliance, Yahoo's Hadoop-based spin-off and LexisNexis' HPCC. Disclosure: VMware, which is owned by EMC, is a ReadWriteWeb sponsor. Discuss