Dear all, A big IT company established in Luxembourg asks me very tricky questions about the best way for it to embrace the FOSS (Free/OpenSource) movement in the Luxembourg's market. To give them good advices, I would appreciate you to answer the following questions by e-mail reply. No names will be forwarded. You know I'm honest. If you know IT managers in Luxembourg not on this mailing-list, please forward them the questionnaire. Thank you. I need it very soon. I'm interested also in feelings of peoples that DON'T have decisional impact or even are NOT in the IT business. Thank you. Most questions accepts only one answer. Just please put a 'x' in front of the chosen answer, this way: 1) Do you agree answering this questionnaire ? x a) Yes b) No =================================================================== 1) What is the size of your company in Luxembourg ? a) 0-5 b) 6-15 c) 16-50 d) 51-250 e) 251 and more 2) What is the importance of IT in your company's business ? a) Critical b) Very important c) Important d) Useful e) Low impact f) No impact g) Other: ..................... 3) What impact do you have on your company IT purchase politic ? a) decider b) adviser c) influencer d) no impact 4) Do you know what is free software, OpenSource, Linux, GPL or GNU ? a) Yes b) No c) Other: .......................... 5) What company in this list looks to you the most friendly with FOSS movement ? a) Bull b) Dell c) Fujitsu-Siemens d) HP e) IBM f) Novell g) SCO h) SUN i) None 6) What IT company do you feel performed the strongest effort in supporting FOSS solutions in the last few years ? a) Bull b) Dell c) Fujitsu-Siemens d) HP e) IBM f) Novell g) SCO h) SUN i) None j) Other: ............ 7) What company do you feel being the most able to support professional deployment of FOSS solutions, such as Linux, Samba or Apache in Luxembourg ? a) Bull b) Dell c) Fujitsu-Siemens d) HP e) IBM f) Novell g) SCO h) SUN i) None j) Other: ............ 8) What company provides the best high-end hardware for a professional deployment of FOSS-based servers ? a) Bull b) Dell c) Fujitsu-Siemens d) HP e) IBM f) SUN g) None h) Other: ............ 9) What company provides the best mid-range hardware for a professional deployement of FOSS-based servers ? (PME market) a) Bull b) Dell c) Fujitsu-Siemens d) HP e) IBM f) SUN g) None h) Other: ............ 10) What companies (multiple choices possible) sounds to you as having dual-speech when speaking about FOSS v. proprietary software ? a) Bull b) Dell c) Fujitsu-Siemens d) HP e) IBM f) Novell g) SCO h) SUN i) None j) Other: ............ 11) Do you think migrating from proprietary software to FOSS implies migrating from a traditional IT company to purely FOSS provider, at software level ? In other words, when replacing a proprietary domain controller by Samba, it is normal to get the Samba (and the underlying OS) from FOSS-only companies or from the Internet ? a) Yes b) No c) Other: ............. d) No opinion 12) Do you think migrating from proprietary software to FOSS implies migrating from a traditional IT company to purely FOSS provider, at hardware level also ? In other words, when a new Linux server is installed, it sound normal to run it on white product PC box. a) Yes b) No c) Other: ............. d) No opinion 13) Do you think those companies have a future in FOSS market ? (select all that apply) a) Bull b) Dell c) Fujitsu-Siemens d) HP e) IBM f) Novell g) SCO h) SUN i) None j) Other: ............ 14) Which companies in this list have their own desktop solution ready for deployment ? a) Bull b) Dell c) Fujitsu-Siemens d) HP e) IBM f) Novell g) SCO h) SUN i) None j) Other: ............ Suggestions and remarks: Thank you for your time. I appreciate it. Brent Frère