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Web Services Architect Survey Results

Peter Fletcher

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We recently ran a survey, asking readers to answer a few questions about themselves and their interest in Web Services. The survey ran from 10 ? 29 April 2002, and we received 1004 responses.

On completion of the survey, readers were given a link to one of our PDF papers, Business Process Standards for Web Services by David O?Riordan. While contributors to this survey will clearly have been biased towards this topic, the number of responses received, in a little over two weeks, was encouraging. We therefore think that, despite the usual self-selecting qualifications that inevitably accompany online surveys of this type, the results do represent an interesting snapshot of the state of the industry at this time.

Here are the results of the five questions we asked. All of these questions required an answer for the successful submission of the survey.

1.Select the job title that most accurately reflects your current role.

Job Title

Frequency

%

Consultant

300

29.9%

Architect

218

21.7%

Developer

138

13.7%

Student

81

8.2%

IT Manager

82

8.1%

CEO/CTO/CIO

61

6.1%

Project Manager

56

5.6%

Other

38

3.8%

Marketing/Sales

30

3.0%



2.With which platform do you primarily work?

Platform

Frequency

%

J2EE

499

53.3%

Microsoft/.NET

315

33.7%

Open Source

98

10.5%

Other

92

9.8%



3.Which of these topics would you most like to see covered on Web Services Architect?

Topics

Frequency

%

Processes/Workflow

237

25.3%

EAI

203

21.7%

B2B

202

21.6%

Consumer Web Services

142

15.2%

Standards

115

12.3%

Working Code

52

5.7%

ebXML

53

5.6%



4.When did you / will you start implementing Web Services?

WhenStart

Frequency

%

No plans to do so

173

18.5%

More than 12 months away

129

13.8%

More than 3 months away

205

21.9%

Imminently

176

18.8%

Already working on a project

258

27.6%

Already completed a project

63

6.7%



5.How much do you spend on online content per year?

Spend

Frequency

%

$0

293

31.3%

$0 - $100

260

27.8%

$100 - $500

185

19.8%

$500 - $1000

79

8.4%

$1000 +

187

20.0%



We welcome your comments, and suggestions for future topics, surveys and questions. Please email us at feedback@webservicesarchitect.com.

Peter Fletcher is the managing editor of this site

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