Here is an assortment of the most in demand open source tools for developers, along with a short description. This listing include version control systems, integrated development environment (IDEs), text editors, and web and mobile frameworks. All these are commonly used by developers to create new applications.

• Git: Git is a free and open source version control system used in software development in Dubai, devised to manage small to large projects, with speed and efficiency. With the rising popularity of Github, Git has become the go-to standard and as per latest surveys, is now the most sought after version control system among software developers. It is vouched by the prominent names in the technology industry, such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, LinkedIn and Netflix. It outranks Software Configuration Management Tools like subversion CVS, Perforce and ClearCase.
• Eclipse: Eclipse is an integrated development environment (IDE) used in computer programming by developers in software Development Company in Dubai. It features a base workspace and an extensible plug-in system for personalizing the environment. Eclipse is the most popular Java IDE, but it is also used to develop applications in other programming languages like C/C++, PHP and JavaScript using plugins. Eclipse also features many plugins which bring code quality, version control and the like to the integrated development environment.  
• Node.js: Node.js is an open source development service, applications are written in JavaScript, and can be run within the Node.js runtime environment to develop server-side and networking applications. It also provides an ample library of various JavaScript modules which simplifies the web applications using Node.js to a large extent. 
• Cordova: Cordova is a mobile application development framework which allows mobile developers to write for iOS, Android, Windows etc. utilizing Web development technologies like HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• ASP.NET: ASP.NET is a Web application framework designed for the development of dynamic Web pages. It was developed by Microsoft to help programmers to build dynamic websites, Web applications and Web Pages. A fully featured programming language like C# or VB.NET to build Web applications easily.