Sixth Microsoft .NET Adoption and Component Awareness Study
October 2007

(With comparisons to the previous studies)

Methodology

An e-mail was sent out to 50,000 randomly selected SD Times subscribers inviting them to participate in a study. Excluding undeliverables, the net number of surveys delivered was 48,603.

The purpose was to ascertain their plans to use Microsoft .NET technology and gauge their involvement and awareness of components and component vendors.

The study was e-mailed on October 18, 2007, and cut off and tabulated by BZ Research on October 30, 2007. A total of 975 subscribers, or 2.0% of the respondents, completed the survey, although not all of them answered every question.

BZ Research designed, conducted and tabulated the study. BZ Research is a division of BZ Media, publisher of SD Times.

Table of Contents

Question 1a. Which software development platforms and component models are currently in use at your company?

Question 1b. Which software development platforms and component models do you plan to migrate to or build new applications for over the next 12 months?

Question 2a. Which software deployment targets are currently in use at your company?

Question 2b. Which software deployment targets do you plan to migrate to or build new applications for?

Question 3a. Which platform components of the Microsoft "stack" are currently in use at your company?

Question 3b. Which platform components of the Microsoft "stack" do you plan to migrate to or build new applications for over the next 12 months?

Question 4a. Which programming languages are currently in use at your company?

Question 4b. Which programming languages do you plan to use for new/ongoing projects over the next 12 months?

Question 5. At what stage is your organization with Silverlight development and deployment?

Question 6. Which integrated development environment(s) are currently in use for developing Windows or .NET applications?

Question 7. Do you have any comments about the platforms, targets, languages and tools that you will be using during the next 12 months, or the decisions that are driving any changes?

Question 8. Which percentage of your Microsoft-based applications development projects would you estimate are now based on .NET?

Question 9. For which platforms do you anticipate using, buying or licensing reusable components over the next 12 months?

Question 10. Which types of reusable components do you anticipate using, buying or licensing over the next 12 months?

Question 11. If you/your team have no plans to buy or license reusable components, why not?

Question 12. Do you have any comments regarding commercial reusable components, such as your reasons for using them (or not using them), as well as any experiences with them?

Question 13. Which of the following companies have you heard of?

Study #3557 costs US$1,495 without verbatims, or $1,795 with verbatims.