heres one data point... (Score 2, Interesting)

I'm a post-doctoral researcher at a engineering college and I use Linux for all of my data acquisition and analysis. The following environments are used:

LabVIEW, PERL, shell scripts, and/or C for data acquisition

C++, MatLAB, and/or shell scripts for data analysis

and you can get some of my codes from Sourceforge:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/qaxa
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ssnooper

and others are available by sending me an email.

Ed
http://cesep.mines.edu/people/hill.htm