Results of Cloud Computing Survey – Part 1: Is Cloud relevant?

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Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson.

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On January 7th 2010 I kicked off a survey on Cloud Computing and the Windows Azure Platform (Now closed). A big thanks to the 100 folks who completed the survey. I have been through the results and removed a few where folks clearly dropped out after page 1 (which is fine – but I felt it wasn’t helping the results).

I promised to share the results which I will do over four posts. This is the first of those four.

  • Part 1: Is Cloud relevant?
  • Part 2: How well do you know the technologies of Microsoft, Amazon, Google and SalesForce?
  • Part 3: What Plans around the Windows Azure Platform?
  • Part 4: My analysis

Some observations:

  • I am a .NET developer (well, I try to be), therefore my expectation is that most folks replying would in the main be .NET developers. This will obviously means the results will end up favouring MS technologies.
  • I am UK based, hence most of the respondents are from the UK.
  • At the time of creating the survey I had only just switched to Azure. Hence I think my “readership” at that point were not “Azure fans” or “Cloud fans” – instead they were likely a cross section of the development landscape. Which I think makes the answer to question 2 very interesting.

Do you develop in the UK?

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What is your view of the relevance of Cloud Computing to the applications you build?

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What type of applications would you expect to deploy? (Multiple choice)

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NB: 6 people skipped the above, presumably folks who had rules it out.

Which technologies do you currently use for building web applications and services? (Multiple choice)

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