Election Results...

Election Results...

[Oliver E. Cole]

  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

                          %
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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
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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
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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)
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Harris CX/UX
IBM Ada, Alsys, Meridian
VxWorks

pSOS+ or similar RT

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Oliver E. Cole                                               oec@ocsystems.com
OC Systems, Inc.                                                (703) 359-8165
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Oliver E. Cole                                               oec@ocsystems.com
OC Systems, Inc.                                                (703) 359-8165

Re: Election Results...

[Norman H. Cohen]

In article <1994Nov11.210039.16475@ocsystems.com>, oec@ocsystems.com
(Oliver E. Cole) writes: 

|>   Of special note, the OCS demo crushed Ishtar.
...
|> ==================== --------
|> 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
|> ==================== --------

I actually found these nine votes very comforting.  I greatly enjoyed the
movie Ishtar, but I've never met anyone else who admitted to doing so.

--
True confesssions from: 
Norman H. Cohen    ncohen@watson.ibm.com