> We are not just measuring the number of users of Firebird, which we
> are certain will never be accurate. The survey does cover other
> aspects and counting number of users is not our primary motive.

I am happy to hear your survey is going well, and look forward to
seeing the results on FirebirdNews.

For the other two stated purposes (developer acceptance, enterprise
readiness) you should be aware of built-in biases that may occur:

- Firebird 'just works', it has this habbit of going out of your way.
Many developers working with FB/IB don't have to bother with tracking
FB from day to day and filling out a survey.

- FB has large communities in Brazil and Russia. I suspect they will
be much underrepresented in an english language survey. Perhaps your
survey is proving me wrong, with 50% of responses from those
countries; I don't know.

- "Enterprise" users (as in organisations with >1,000 PC's) are imho
very likely not to respond in the survey.

I am not trying to put down your excellent initiative, just
cautioning on how to interpret the results. Perhaps it would be good
if you interviewed a few people with known enterprise level
deployments:

- SAS presented about their use of FB on the last conference
- Contact Fikret Hasovic for info about the usage of FB by the tax
authorities of Bosnia & Herzegovnia
- Contact Paul Beach about usage by Adarvo Ltd (50 gig data, 2000
users)
- Contact Paul Reeves about usage by the German Press Agency
- etc.

For me "enterprise readiness" is not a question, it is a given.

Paul