OT surveying open source in business

Ralph Pichie thevillagegeek at gmail.com
Sun Apr 12 17:37:48 UTC 2009


This summer, I will be surveying small and medium sized businesses
about their hiring needs/plans, skill requirements, workplaces, etc.
The second page of five in the survey has a question about current or
potential use of open source software and systems. I'd like some
feedback on this question, so I have included it below for you to
review.

Open Source Software Skills:

(Multiple select options below)
Mozilla Firefox
OpenOffice.org (cross-platform office suite)
Mozilla Thunderbird (e-mail/calendar)
GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)
Other open-source software on Windows
Other open-source software on Mac
<Linux distributions>
CentOS
Debian
Fedora
Mandriva
Mepis
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
SUSE
Ubuntu (including Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc.)
Other Linux distribution
<Content Management Systems>
Drupal
Joomla!
Plone
<>
No idea

"Is your organization presently using any free/open source software,
or planning/considering implementing open source software during the
next 12 months? If so, please indicate which from the options above."

The construction site for the survey is at http://hireknowledge.ca
Note that I will be adding information resources for the confused, and
I will be preparing respondents with a list of key questions before
they actually reach the survey form itself.

Any thoughts?

Ralph




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