From: krubin@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Kenneth S. Rubin)
Subject: Questionnaire on uses of OOT in Industry
Originator: krubin@Xenon.Stanford.EDU
Organization: ParcPlace Systems 
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 22:21:58 GMT


This message contains a very short questionnaire about where and in 
what manner Object Technology is being used in Industry.  My purposes 
in constructing and posting it on the net are to:

1) Understand the different types of businesses that have used and/or 
are currently using Object Technology.

2) Understand the types of projects that are being tackled with 
Object Technology.

3) Understand the object-oriented methodologies and technologies 
being employed.

My immediate use of this data will be at the upcoming International 
Function Point Users Group Conference where I am giving an invited 
presentation on how OO and Function Points relate.  Since Function 
Points are principally targeted towards the MIS community, I want 
to provide some indication of what percentage of OO projects are 
Engineering vs. MIS.  Your responses will provide part of this data. 
I am a little worried that the majority of the readers of this newsgroup 
may be from the engineering community, but I'll let the data speak 
for itself.

The questionnaire consists of 8 questions and can easily be filled out 
in less than 10 minutes.  Please mail your responses directly to me and 
I will analyze the results and post them to the net.

For the purposes of this survey, a project is considered object-oriented 
if has used or will use an object-oriented or object-based programming 
language.

Please fill out a separate questionnaire for each project that has 
different characteristics.

Thanks in advance,
--Kenny Rubin
krubin@parcplace.com

P.S. If you wish to post a follow-up message, please limit it to comp.object.


<----------------------- Questionnaire Begins ---------------------->
1) For how many projects is this response valid?  _________


2) Where is the project being developed (if multiple sites, please list all)?

_____________________________________________________________
 

3) Please identify the industry for which this project is being developed.  
For example, Petroleum, Manufacturing or Financial Service.

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4) Please identify the project type and provide a very short description.  
For example, Factory Automation and Control (attempting to automate and 
control the production of tennis shoes), Network Management (enable a 
system administrator to ascertain the status and repair faulty nodes on 
a network), or Financial Trading (assist the trading floor analysts in 
the construction and deployment of new financial products).

_____________________________________________________________


5) Identify the language(s)/development environment(s) being used on 
the project.  If there are multiple languages, object-oriented or not, 
please identify the relative percentage of the system developed in each.  
For example, Objectworks\Smalltalk (75%),  Microsoft C (20%), Sybase SQL (5%).

_____________________________________________________________


6) What hardware and operating environment is being used for development and 
deployment?  For example, SPARCstations running Solaris 1.0 for development 
and 80386 class hardware running Windows 3.1 for deployment.

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7) Identify the database(s) being used on the project.  If there are 
multiple, please list each with a one line description of its specific use.  
For example, IBM DB2 (to hold the company's business data; legacy reasons), 
and Servio Gemstone (to hold the software artifacts during development).

_____________________________________________________________



8) Identify the analysis and design approaches used on the project?  
For example, Structured Analysis followed by Booch during design.  

_____________________________________________________________

From: kers@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Chris Dollin)
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 12:53:16 GMT
Subject: Re: O.M(...) vs M(...), and is the Real World O-O?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.