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143 respondants.
Please specify the countries where WebObjects developers in your organization are located.
Country name | Nbr of organizations | Nbr of developers |
USA | 44 | 132 |
Germany | 18 | 61 |
UK | 15 | 29 |
Canada | 14 | 24 |
Australia | 11 | 28 |
France | 8 | 61 |
Mexico | 4 | 16 |
Netherlands | 3 | 8 |
Italy | 3 | 7 |
Switzerland | 3 | 6 |
Russia | 2 | 10 |
Poland | 2 | 10 |
Slovakia | 2 | 6 |
Portugal | 2 | 4 |
New Zealand | 2 | 3 |
Czech Republic | 1 | 6 |
Iceland | 1 | 5 |
Costa Rica | 1 | 5 |
Brazil | 1 | 3 |
Afghanistan | 1 | 2 |
Japan | 1 | 1 |
Belgium | 1 | 1 |
Bulgaria | 1 | 1 |
Hungary | 1 | 1 |
India | 1 | 1 |
Singapore | 1 | 1 |
Austria | 1 | 1 |
Bulgaria | 1 | 1 |
Malaysia | 1 | 1 |
What is the size of your organization?
SOHO (1 to 9 employees) | 48% |
Small business (10 to 99 employees) | 25% |
Medium business (100 to 999 employees) | 8% |
Enterprise (1000 to 4999 employees) | 2% |
Large enterprise (5000+) | 3% |
Government | 3% |
College/university | 10% |
K-12 | 0% |
Other, please specify | 2% |
For how many years has your organization been using WebObjects?
Less than 5 years | 22% |
5 to 9 years | 48% |
10 years and more | 30% |
17 organizations started using WO in the last two years.
Which versions of WebObjects does your organization use?
5.4.x | 77% |
5.3.x | 44% |
5.2.x | 15% |
5.1.x | 1% |
5.0.x | 0% |
4.5.x (Objective-C) | 4% |
4.5.x (Java) | 1% |
4.0.1 | 1% |
Only one organization is only using 4.5.x (Objective-C). Only five organizations are only using 5.2.x.
Which platforms are used at your organization/department to DEVELOP with WebObjects?
Mac OS X | 96% |
Windows | 16% |
Linux | 5% |
Other, please specify | 1% |
14 organizations have devs on both OS X and Windows, most of them also have devs on Linux.
Which platforms are used at your organization/department to DEPLOY WebObjects applications?
Mac OS X Server | 67% |
RedHat/Fedora/CentOS Linux | 35% |
Mac OS X "client" | 17% |
Windows | 13% |
Solaris | 11% |
FreeBSD | 5% |
Debian Linux | 5% |
Ubuntu Linux | 4% |
SuSE Linux | 3% |
HP Unix | 1% |
AIX | 1% |
Amazon Cloud - EC2 | 1% |
Which database systems does your organization use with WebObjects?
MySQL | 46% |
Oracle Database | 34% |
PostgreSQL | 30% |
FrontBase | 25% |
MS SQL Server | 11% |
OpenBase | 8% |
Sybase | 4% |
Derby | 2% |
h2 | 2% |
DB2 | 2% |
HSQLDB | 1% |
SAP MaxDB | 1% |
Filemaker | 1% |
PINK SQL | 1% |
EnterpriseDB | 1% |
If you are using commercial or free WebObjects frameworks not provided by Apple or your own, please specify which ones?
Wonder | 92% |
Houdah Frameworks | 13% |
PDFkit | 9% |
LEWOStuff | 7% |
GVC Frameworks | 5% |
WOX | 2% |
JBND | 2% |
Noxymo | 2% |
LISTedit | 1% |
LSkit | 0% |
WireHose | 1% |
Woof | 1% |
SVGObjects | 0% |
Cocktail Consortium | 0% |
Which IDEs your organization uses for WebObjects development?
Eclipse with WOLips | 94% |
Xcode | 19% |
Project Builder | 4% |
IntelliJ IDEA | 1% |
netbeans (java client) | 1% |
TextMate | 1% |
Only 9 organizations are not using Eclipse/WOLips at all.
Does your organization use JavaClient?
Yes | 8% |
No | 92% |
Does your organization use DirectToWeb?
Yes | 33% |
No | 67% |
Does your organization use Direct To Web Services?
Yes | 6% |
No | 94% |
Does your organization consume Web Services (SOAP, REST, or other) using WebObjects?
Yes | 52% |
No | 48% |
Does your organization provide Web Services (SOAP, REST, or other) using WebObjects?
Yes | 56% |
No | 44% |
Does your organization deploy WebObjects applications as part of a SOA infrastructure?
Yes | 22% |
No | 78% |
Does your organization use RIA technologies? If yes, which one(s)
AJAX (with Wonder) | 61% |
AJAX (without Wonder) | 26% |
Adobe Flex (without WOX) | 11% |
Adobe Flex (with WOX) | 3% |
GWT | 3% |
Cappuccino | 2% |
JavaFX | 1% |
Mozilla XUL | 1% |
Microsoft SilverLight | 0% |
OpenLaszlo | 0% |
Did your organization send WebObjects developers to WOWODC 2009 (either West or East)?
Yes, and we plan to send someone next year | 23% |
Yes, but we don't plan to attend it next year | 1% |
No, but we will send someone next year | 16% |
I don't know if our organization have sent someone | 1% |
No, for another reason | 55% |
I don't know what WOWODC is | 4% |
Does your organization mainly use WebObjects for internal projects or external customers?
Customers outside our organization | 29% |
Hosted products/services that we provide | 16% |
Both hosted products/services and customers outside our organization | 40% |
Internal use | 15% |
Is your organization considering dropping WebObjects because of the scarcity of WebObjects developers?
Yes | 9% |
No | 85% |
No, but it is a concern brought up from time to time | 1% |
We're moving allprojects to FOSS software where possible, it's still not clear how WO fits into that picture | 1% |
Not because of the lack of developers but the lack of training to give them | 1% |
Not yet but that becomes a hard reality | 1% |
Apple attitude | 1% |
Very Nervous | 1% |
Is WebObjects the primary Web (or Java desktop) development environnement at your organization?
Yes | 73% |
No | 27% |
Does your organization still use WebObjects for new projects?
Yes | 88% |
No | 7% |
For some projects | 5% |
Does your organization plan to stop, or already stopped, using WebObjects in the next 12 months?
No | 87% |
Yes | 6% |
Maybe | 8% |