Who Did We Survey About Open Source Business Models?

  

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We've had some people asking about the sample for our recent survey that asked users about open source business models and license models.  So here's some data on our sample and the respondents.

We sent the survey to about 10,000 people in our database. Some of these are customers, but most are not.  These represent companies in a variety of industries that may use open source at varying levels. We also posted the link on Twitter, but less than 10% of the response came from Twitter.

We asked respondents for their company size, industry and job function.

Company size 

• 66 % of respondents were from companies over 200 employees
• 33% of respondents were from companies under 200 employees.

Industry

Respondents came from a wide range of industries, but here are the top 6 industries.

• 25% Technology
• 10% Telecommunications
• 9%   Banking/Finance
• 8%   Consulting
• 6%   Government
• 5%   Aerospace & Defense

Job function

Respondents tend to be technical.  Here are the top job functions of respondents.

• 13% Developers
• 12% CIO/CTO
• 12% Architects
• 9%   Technical Lead
• 9%   Legal/Compliance
• 8%   IT/Development Manager
  

Overall we got a good sampling of different job functions and industries.  Check out the press release with survey results.