JIM MCKINNEY WINNER OF PALMTOP FROM KIDDER SURVEY; RESULTS ATTACHED

Thanks to all of you who participated in the Kidder, Peabody survey we conducted on the net. We raffled off an HP Palmtop to a survey participant at random. The winner was..... *WINNER* Jim McKinney | email: jmck@yfn.ysu.edu DP Supervisor | tdi3!jmck@ncoast.org Tridelta Industries, Inc | voice: (216) 255-1080 Mentor, OH | fax: (216) 255-2831 Jim has received his Palmtop and we presume he is happily computing away. The technology industry analysts at Kidder look forward to conducting more of these surveys in the future and raffling off more prizes. As a reminder, Kidder is an international investment banking firm in New York with 50 analysts around the world. The 5 technology analyst conduct surveys to determine what users think of various products and companies. We received lots of valuable feedback about how we could have improved the survey and will do so on our next attempt. Thanks again! Question regarding this survey should directed to this internet address or reach me by mail, phone, or fax as follows: Charles Phillips Vice President Software Industry Analyst Kidder, Peabody & Co. 10 Hanover Square New York, NY 10005 Phone: 212-510-3859 Fax: 212-510-3084 Internet: phillips@analyst.win.net Compuserve: 73766,1630 SURVEY FOLLOWS SURVEY FOLLOWS SURVEY FOLLOWS SURVEY FOLLOWS ================================================================ 1. What is your department/organization's strategy toward Windows/NT? 133 Not likely to migrate within next 12 months 134 Not likely to migrate within next 24 months 126 Will use selectively to experiment 27 Will use selectively initially, but probably standardize on the product at some point 83 Still evaluating 9 Will move aggressively to NT over the next 24 months 11 Will move aggressively to NT over the next 12 months 2. Which of the following operating systems is likely to be your organization's dominant departmental or work group operating system over the NEXT 12 MONTHS? 23 SCO Unix 97 Sun OS 22 HP Unix 16 IBM AIX 79 Other Unix 9 OS/2 28 Novell Netware 4 Lan Manager 61 VMS 1 OS/400 (AS/400) 17 Other 3. Which of the following operating systems is likely to be your organization's dominant departmental or work group operating system IN TWO YEARS? 15 SCO Unix 94 Sun OS 23 HP Unix 18 IBM AIX 83 Other Unix 8 OS/2 28 Novell Netware 5 Lan Manager 48 VMS 1 OS/400 (AS/400) 22 Other 4. If you are planning to use NT, how will it be used? 142 Client (desktop) operating system 79 Application Server 56 File Server 19 Decision Support Applications 11 OLTP applications 84 Work group Applications (2-7 users) 48 Departmental Applications (7-30 users) 20 Enterprise level applications (30+ users) 5. Which statements reflect your opinion of Windows/NT relative to UNIX? 88 NT is fine for work group applications, but Unix is more appropriate for departmental and enterprise applications 75 NT will eventually be as scalable as Unix across multiple hardware platforms 62 The cost advantage of NT will make it a compelling operating system over time 117 Application availability for NT will be the key factor that draws users over time; NT likely to dominate in three to five years 118 The common application programming interfaces (APIs) between Windows/NT and Windows 3.1 represent are a strong attraction for developers 128 The proven reliability and robustness of Unix outweigh the benefit of a single standard like Windows 13 My organization is leaning toward NT because it simplifies our IT architecture 96 Recent efforts by Unix vendors to standardize APIs will stifle the impact of NT 6. Please indicate your organization plans relative to relational databases? (place an "X" in all appropriate columns) DATA BASE INSTALLED NOW | PLAN TO BUY MORE IN NEXT 12 MONTHS INFORMIX 106 INFORMIX 49 SYBASE 32 SYBASE 30 INGRES 41 INGRES 12 ORACLE 94 ORACLE 61 PROGRESS 8 PROGRESS 2 INTERBASE 1 INTERBASE 3 UNIFY 3 UNIFY 0 DB2/2 1 DB2/2 1 INFO 1 INFO 1 MSQL 1 MSQL 1 RDB 2 RDB 0 DSM 1 DSM 0 METALBASE 0 METALBASE 1 7. Please indicate what percent of your organization's data has already been moved to a relational database and what percent is likely to move in the future. YEAR PERCENT OF DATA IN A RELATIONAL DATABASE Avg. % Number of Responses 1993 42.8 269 1994 54.1 254 1995 63.7 234 1996 66.1 212