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title: A Roundup of Predictions and Analysis on Software Developers and Development. RedMonk Nailing it.
date: 2013-06-20T14:43:08Z
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timestamp: 2013-06-24T13:37:34Z
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When you’ve been an analyst company for 10 years or so, it becomes pretty clear whether your track record on prediction passes muster. At RedMonk we’re justifiably proud of nailing many of the trends affecting software development very early on in their development. Or as I like to put it:

> “At RedMonk we’re usually four years or so ahead of the industry. We do that by being eight four years behind Tim O’Reilly.”

In this post I round up some RedMonk analysis that I think you’ll find interesting:

- [GitHub Will Hit 5 Million Users Within a Year](http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/2013/01/21/github-will-hit-5-million-users-within-a-year/), Jan 2013
- [The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings](http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2013/02/28/language-rankings-1-13/), January 2013
- [What’s in Store for 2012: A Few Predictions](http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2012/01/13/2012-predictions/)
- [Revisiting the 2012 Predictions](http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2013/01/15/revisiting-2012-predictions/)
- [SOAP is Boring, Wake Up Big Vendors or Get Niched](http://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2005/02/10/soap-is-boring-wake-up-big-vendors-or-get-niched/), 2005
- [Ranking Linux Distributions, and the Decline of the Traditional Distros](http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/2013/05/20/ranking-linux-distributions-and-the-decline-of-the-traditional-distros/), 2013
- [The Rails/Node Lesson: Frameworks Lead Adoption](http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2011/04/27/frameworks-lead-adoption/), 20111
- [Community Metrics: Comparing Chef and Puppet](http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2012/03/13/chef-and-puppet/), 2012
- [Enterprises and consumers don’t buy things, they subscribe to services](http://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2005/02/04/enterprises-and-consumers-dont-buy-things-they-subscribe-to-services/), Cloud, 2005
- [Breaking The Relational Chains](http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2005/03/07/breaking-the-relational-chains/) – NoSQL, 2005
- [Distributed Source Code Management – Niche or Trend?: The Q&A](http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/06/26/dscm/) 2007
- [Why You Should Pay Attention to Node.Js](http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2010/05/13/node-js/ "Permanent link to Why You Should Pay Attention to Node.Js") – 2010