Keith A. Marshall, B.Sc. | Java Contractor, eCommerce | Ext: 1089
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Proctor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 4:33 PM
To: Drools User List; [email protected]
Subject: [drools-dev] questionnaire to help get Drools into Gartner
Magic Quandrant
We are trying to get Drools into the Magic Quadrant report, however we
cannot do this unless we show that Drools the JBoss Rules engine has
atleast a 3 million "impact" on the market. Because open source is
different we can include end users as a calculated financial impact, to
do this we need to gather some answers to questions from our users. No
information will be made public, its purely for us to present to
gartner, and we can sign an NDA if necessary. If you can help please
answer these, as briefly or as detailed as you can manage, and reply to
me directly.
1. What specific problem(s) were you trying to solve?
The extraction of Customer/Entity specific logic from
the application code to a centrally managed repository.
2. Describe the project itself; what was needed?
On-line retailer and reseller management of purchasing
rules.
3. Is this project internal or external and how many estimated users?
Estimated 5,000 users
4. What products & vendors did you consider?
All Open Source rule engines
5. Why JBoss Rules? How much did open source play in your decision?
Opensocurce played quite a role. We have standardized
our web development on Jboss for multiple deparetments
6. Describe the implementation/size (hardware, OS, databases, # of
servers or CPUs, # of developers, etc...)
N/A at this time.
7. How long did it take you to implement your JBoss Rules solution?
been discussing and POC for three weeks.
How did that compare to previous projects?
8. What benefits do you realize? (ROI, cost savings, performance
improvements, developer productivity, etc...)
long term reduction in code to manage business rules in
applications
9. Are you now in deployment? How has JBoss performed so far? What
were the main delivered benefits from Drools?
10. What is your experience with JBoss support thus far? What support
products do you use (Professional Support, Consulting, Training)?
11. Knowing what you know now, would you choose JBoss again for
upcoming projects?
Many Thanks
Mark
