I’m a 21 year old developer working in Brazil.

My primary platform is .Net, using Delphi.Net (Legacy) but moving towards C#.

My company focus on Web Development, mostly HTML-CSS-JS-ASP.Net.

Our systems are now being built for SaaS.

Our primary OS is Windows XP, although I use Windows 7 on my laptop.

All of our programming staff is preparing for Microsoft Certifications (demanded by customers).

No Linux here, but nothing against it either, just that no one ever asked us to develop for it.

About Microsoft Presence here, I’d say it’s huge. Some Micro ISV like open-source technologies, but governments and large corporations (my company’s primary target) prefer consolidated Microsoft products. I myself do too.

Here in Brazil, some large IT companies export software, but I’d say that the biggest market for us is our internal market.

Even small companies here expect systems to be entirely customized for their LOB.

That’s more work for us.

Thanks, Pedro Brown.