Informix Tools Customer Requirements

Hello, Informix R&D is currently investigating customer requirements and directions for application development and deployment tools. We are collecting input on this from Informix customers with a survey of customer requirements. This information will be used to help prioritize our tool development investments. If you are an Informix customer, we would like your help by filling out and returning the following survey. Please send your completed survey via email to: matta@informix.com Thank you in advance for considering this request. If you have any questions, you may contact Noelle Emenaker through email (noelle@informix.com) or by phone at (415) 846-1664. =20 Regards, Matt Anderson Informix R&D Tools -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Customer Survey of Application Development Tools and Future Requirements=20 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Informix Software, Inc. April 29, 1997 Introduction =20 This survey is designed to gather information from Informix customers about their needs and requirements for application development tools. We are specifically interested in your plans and requirements for tools to support application development, application deployment and distributed application paradigms.=20 The information you enter in this survey will become Informix Confidential Information once it has been received by Informix. Informix will keep all information you provide in this survey anonymous to outside sources and will not distribute it to any other companies or organizations.=20 Instructions The time required to complete this survey is estimated to be between 15 to 30 minutes. However, you may wish to take additional time to enter comments or other information wherever you desire on the survey. There is also a final Comments section where we would like to know if there is anything we missed that you feel is important to your requirements.=20 To mark an answer to a multiple choice question, please type an 'x' in the= =20 white-space between the parentheses next to your choice. For any question= that does not provide the option or answer you need, please type whatever=20 information is needed in the area marked "other" for that question.=20 Please send your your completed survey via email to: matta@informix.com Thank you! =20 Customer Background Name:=20 Title:=20 Company:=20 Street:=20 City, State, Zip:=20 Country: Phone No:=20 Fax No:=20 Email:=20 Today's Date:=20 Company Overview Please provide a brief description of your Company's business. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ Approximately how many people are employed by your company? ( ) 1 - 50 ( ) 51 - 100 ( ) 101 - 500 ( ) 500 - 1000 ( ) > 1000 What type(s) of applications does your company primarily develop? =20 Check all that apply: ( ) Modify packaged applications (e.g., BaaN, PeopleSoft) ( ) Microsoft Win32 with ActiveX/COM/OLE components ( ) Web/Java ( ) Client/Server using integrated development environments (e.g. PowerBuilder, Forte, VisualBasic) ( ) Other_____________ What database products does your company currently use? Check all that= apply: ( ) Informix Online 5.x ( ) Informix Online 7.x ( ) Informix Universal Server ( ) IBM DB2 ( ) Microsoft Access ( ) Microsoft SQLServer ( ) Oracle System 7.x ( ) Sybase SQL Server ( ) Other___________________ How did you hear about this survey? ( ) Informix Newsgroup ( ) Informix Customer Sales Representative ( ) Informix Systems Engineer=20 ( ) Informix Advanced Technology Group ( ) Other___________________ I. Application Development Questions In this section, we are interested in learning about the types of programmers your company has doing application development, and which languages and development tools are used by these programmers.=20 1. What types of application developers does your company have today? Check all that apply: ( ) GUI ( ) Database ( ) Business Logic ( ) Other ____________________________ =20 2. What percentage of application developers work on each of these areas in a typical project? Check all that apply: ( ) GUI _____ % ( ) Database _____ % ( ) Business Logic _____ % ( ) Other ___________ ____% =20 3. What languages are used in each of these application development areas? Check all that apply: GUI ( ) 4GL ( ) Basic ( ) C ( ) C++ ( ) COBOL ( ) Java ( ) Other _________ Database ( ) 4GL ( ) Basic ( ) C ( ) C++ ( ) COBOL ( ) Java ( ) Other _________ Business Logic ( ) 4GL ( ) Basic ( ) C ( ) C++ ( ) COBOL ( ) Java ( ) Other _________ Other Areas ( ) 4GL ( ) Basic ( ) C ( ) C++ ( ) COBOL ( ) Java ( ) Other _________ 4. What tools are used in each of these application development areas? Check all that apply: GUI ( ) Centura ( ) Informix-NewEra ( ) Microsoft Visual Basic ( ) Sybase PowerBuilder ( ) Microsoft Visual C++ ( ) Oracle Developer 2000 ( ) Other ______________ =20 Database ( ) Centura ( ) Informix-NewEra ( ) Microsoft Visual Basic ( ) Sybase PowerBuilder ( ) Microsoft Visual C++ ( ) Oracle Developer 2000 ( ) Other ______________ =20 Business Logic ( ) Centura ( ) Informix-NewEra ( ) Microsoft Visual Basic ( ) Sybase PowerBuilder ( ) Microsoft Visual C++ ( ) Oracle Developer 2000 ( ) Other ______________ =20 5. What percentage of application developers are using C++ in each of these areas? Check all that apply: ( ) GUI _____ % ( ) Database _____ % ( ) Business Logic _____ % ( ) Other ___________ ____% 6. In what time-frame will your company be developing applications using ActiveX? ( ) currently ( )