Other Programmer Development Tools and Utilities

The other programmer development tools and utilities market includes standalone edit, compile, and debug utilities; libraries; repositories; software reengineering and transformation tools; standalone GUI builders; report writers used mainly by developers; AI and expert system builders; software development kits; code browsers; graphics toolkits and data/file conversion aids; and program memory and disk management. Additionally, this category includes remote procedure call (RPC) middleware, which is built for an application-to-application interoperability model. Applications make requests by shipping a direct call for the execution. (IDC does not provide detailed functional analysis of this market.)

IDC does not analyze the other programmer development tools and utilities collection of miscellaneous products as a separate market but does include the revenue from this "market" in the overall revenue total for completeness of application development and deployment market coverage.