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UnixWorld Survey Results

Thanks to all who filled out our recent UnixWorld Survey. We greatly appreciate your time but especially your interest in and support of UnixWorld. Be sure to check back often as we implement your ideas and comments throughout 1999. But for now, sit back, relax and see how your fellow Unix-enthusiasts feel about Unix OSes, programming languages, applications and systems management technologies.

You can browse the survey results in three ways:

• Comparative bar charts
• User comments
• Complete numerical results

Bar charts of select survey results (percentage of all respondents)

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Select user comments

When asked if you had any further comments or suggestions, you said:

• I started out depending on Unix World many years ago. Without the resource of the magazine and excellent coverage of Unix, I'd still be reading the manual.
• Your Tutorial section needs to be beefed up with more current technologies. Also you need to add a new section on Integration i.e Unix and NT, Unix and NetWare, etc. as this is very relevant in today's multi-platform environments.
• Just to clarify, I am quite dismayed and saddened by the steady retreat from Unix-specific such as your late, great UnixWorld publication. I, and I suspect many other Unix sysadmins, found a wealth of useful information in that magazine and the subsequent related web site. I have no interest in, nor time to devote to, NT except as a user.
• Python, tck/tk, mac os x server
• Macintosh networking issues and subjects
• Some of us need UNIX but don't love it...give us what we need to know to get by!
• I would like to see more coverage of/info about Solaris x86 and the *BSD operating environments which run on Intel compatible hardware, and less hype about Linux and NT.
• Linux is clearly becoming a force in the UNIX world. I would like to see articles about integrating new products in Linux.
• Although I did not know the existence of UnixWorld until recent, I actually find it very useful and resourceful to me, as I'm just a novice in Unix platform. Thank you and keep up the great work!
• Excellent. Telling all my friends.... I especially like your current series on setting up Linux network services. Very practical. All theory and hearsay (news) is boring sometimes.
• In General I am a fairly new Unix Systems Administrator (HP-UX). My systems are generally stable for the most part and I can't afford to bring a system down to practice. It would be nice to see you put Unix commands and explanations out here for guys like me. Thanks!

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Complete numerical results (percentage of all respondents)

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