On Feb 19, 2008 5:04 PM, Onno Benschop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You don't need to talk about products. Just the architecture would be > > interesting. The Sun servers in question are sparc. so the question may > > be - i386, amd64, or sparc? > > > > dave > > > I suppose that it depends on what kind of data you're trying to capture. >
i386 / amd64 == x86 in the overall sense of things, yes there are differences but I think if we create too many options, we will turn people off. As for sparc, yes, there are certainly sparc users, in fact there are ppc users (I just installed -server ppc myself on a test machine). I think the best way is to have the final item in that list be * Other (Please Specify) That is, the original question was in a round-about kind of way asking > about brands and presumably coverage within those brands to see if > something falls out of the bottom, that is perhaps we'll see something > like: "We know that 50% of our servers are run on HP hardware." > > The path Dave is taking is one of CPU/architecture. > > They're two different kinds of questions. > Agreed, they are two very different questions and while we are likely to be addressing a technical audience with the survey, we cannot garrauntee that, therefore it should be, IMO as general as possible, which means sticking to brands. | I should also point out that more questions isn't always better. It > might be useful to look at other such surveys so we can compare results > between our survey and those conducted by others. > Yes, This survey is again, my opinion, to give us a baseline on the community. >From there we can branch out and apply what we have learned, or correlate it to other surveys. > > Finally, having conducted several ICT surveys myself in the past, it > would in my opinion be beneficial for the survey outcome, to contact a > statistician before you send out the survey to see if you missed any > design issues. > Do we have an stats people on the team? or do we have the resources to have one involved? I think those are two primary issues which we would face in order to do so. I do not disagree with the idea however. Michael
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