 | Over the next five years, how do you expect your company's demand for workers with Unix skills to change?
Base: 266 |
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| Which of the following best describes your vision of where Unix will be in five years?
It will be an essential operating environment with continued widespread deployment 52%
It will be important in some vertical market sectors, but it will not be considered an essential operating environment for most companies 38%
It will generally be seen as a legacy system warranting a non-Unix migration path 6%
None of the above 3%
Other 1%
Base: 266 |
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| Demographics
Most of our respondents were IT managers (71%)
Manager 52%
Other IT manager 19%
Supervisor 9%
Director 7%
Technical consultant 5%
Systems integrator 2%
CIO/ CTO/ CSO .8%
Executive VP, Sr. VP .4%
Vice president .4%
Other 6% |
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| The average number of employees employed in the entire organization, at all locations for respondent companies: 8, 820 with
26% working at companies whose head count is 20,000 or more,
10% working at companies with head counts of 10,000-19,999,
16% at 5,000- 9,999,
25% at 1,000 to 4,999
8% at 500-999,
11% at 100-499
2% at 50-99 and
2% at less than 50 total employees. |
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| The majority of the respondents reported working in these five industries:
80% work in non-computer-related industries
15% Manufacturing/ process industries (non-computer-related)
9% Health/ medical/ dental services
8% Finance/ banking/ accounting
7% Education
6% Government: state or local
6% Retailer/ wholesaler/ distributor (non-computer-related) |
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This study was conducted on behalf of Computerworld to learn about future plans for Unix among IT management/decision-makers.
Methodology
This study was conducted among Computerworld subscribers. A total of 10,000 names with e-mail addresses were randomly selected from the subscriber file using the following selection criteria:
- IT management job title (CIO, CTO, VP, director, manager, supervisor, other IT manager, systems integrator, technical consultant)
- Unix currently in use or planned for use at company
The study was administered via the Internet. Each sampled subscriber was sent an e-mail message inviting him to participate on June 10, 2003. Each sampled subscribers' unique address to access the questionnaire was included in his e-mail. Subscribers could either click on the address to gain access to the questionnaire or enter the address using a Web browser.
In order to qualify to complete the survey, respondents were required to have Unix currently in use at their companies.
The survey ended on June 18, 2003. A total of 291 completed surveys (266 qualified completes) were received, resulting in a 3% response rate.
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