From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE, TO_NO_BRKTS_PCNT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,261b7e9f242ed301,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-11-11 23:24:05 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!uunet!psinntp!ocsystems!oec From: oec@ocsystems.com (Oliver E. Cole) Subject: Election Results... Message-ID: <1994Nov11.210039.16475@ocsystems.com> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1994 21:00:39 GMT Organization: OC Systems, Inc. Date: 1994-11-11T21:00:39+00:00 List-Id: And now, the news you were waiting for. The results of the voting at the OCS booth at TriAda. As it turned out, there seem to be a lot of lurkers out there; 86% said they read comp.lang.ada Some of the other results were unexpected as well. Of special note, the OCS demo crushed Ishtar. --oec FINAL VOTE COUNT Public Count = 111 Elapsed Time = 23 hours, 03 minutes % ==================== -------- Question #1 Assuming costs are equal, which of the following operating systems that have been announced for the Power Architecture would you prefer to use to develop Ada? AIX (Power Open) 25 22.7 Solaris 31 28.1 * Windows/NT 25 22.7 OS/2 6 5.4 MacOS 20 18.1 Lynx 3 2.7 total votes cast 110 ==================== -------- Question #2 Assuming costs are equal, which of the following operating systems that have been announced for the Power Architecture would you prefer to use to deploy an Ada application? AIX (Power Open) 25 23.1 Solaris 31 28.7 * Windows/NT 30 27.7 OS/2 2 1.8 MacOS 15 13.8 Lynx 5 4.6 total votes cast 108 ==================== -------- Question #3 Which of the following are you currently using? AIX (Power Open) 21 20.7 Solaris 30 29.7 * Windows/NT 24 23.7 OS/2 6 5.9 MacOS 12 11.8 Lynx 2 1.9 WRITE-IN VOTES 6 5.9 total votes cast 101 Write-ins: (one written-in entry per line. Includes people who selected "write-in" yet wrote nothing) ============================= Harris CX/UX IBM Ada, Alsys, Meridian VxWorks pSOS+ or similar RT ============================= ==================== -------- Question #4 Do you have internet access? Yes 90 82.5 * No 9 8.2 Yes, but diff. 10 9.1 total votes cast 109 ==================== -------- Question #5 Do you read comp.lang.ada newsgroup on the internet? Once a week 44 40.7 * Never 33 30.5 Once a month 15 13.8 Hardly ever 16 14.8 total votes cast 108 ==================== -------- Question #6 Would you use Ada9X before it is validated? Yes 72 66.6 * No 17 15.7 Maybe 19 17.5 total votes cast 108 ==================== -------- Question #7 Would you consider using executable formal specifications early in a project lifecycle? Yes 73 66.9 * No 7 6.4 Maybe 29 26.6 total votes cast 109 ==================== -------- Question #8 How do you prefer to be supported? Email (Internet) 71 65.1 * Phone 32 29.3 Fax 6 5.5 total votes cast 109 ==================== -------- Question #9 If you had two hours to learn something, would you Volunteer X-MAS 5 4.6 Watch Ishstar 9 8.4 OCS PowerAda 93 86.9 * total votes cast 107 ==================== -------- --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Oliver E. Cole oec@ocsystems.com OC Systems, Inc. (703) 359-8165 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Oliver E. Cole oec@ocsystems.com OC Systems, Inc. (703) 359-8165