4. New Lightweight Languages

One overarching trend that Red Hat unveiled in its survey was a new acceptance of lightweight languages by businesses. According to the survey, 26 percent of respondents plan to primarily use Node.js as their language for back-end development within the next two years.

The Node.js platform, which uses Chrome's JavaScript runtime, is lightweight and is designed to have a small memory footprint. Meanwhile, 15 percent of respondents plan to use Java and 19 percent plan to use .NET. Currently, 71 percent of respondents primarily use Jana and 56 percent use .NET.

Partner Takeaway: Partners will see more customers use lightweight languages to tackle mobile development and integration.