We ran a survey on how people are doing in the WebObjects marketplace. A full report will be available later on, but for the time being, you can look at this quick review.

• 103 organizations answered the survey
• Is your organization (or has it been) an ADC Select or Premium member?
  • 42.7% of organizations are currently ADC members.
  • 17.% of organizations where members before.
  • 29.1% of organizations are not members of ADC because of cost reasons.
  • 10.7% of organizations are not members of ADC for an another reason than cost.
• 32% of organizations attended WWDC in the past two years.
• 25.2% of organizations sells products that ship with the WebObjects frameworks.
• 50.5% of organizations sells hosted WebObjects solutions?
• 35% of organizations also develop applications with Cocoa.
• The biggest WebObjects’ strengths are EOF, RAD environment and maturity.
• The biggest WebObjects weaknesses are the development tools, uncertanity and the learning curve.
• Most asked feature: a full blown Ajax framework.
• 41.7% of organizations thinks that WO is still a major player in the application servers arena.
• 41.7% of organizations thinks that the competition (Ruby on Rails, .net, Hibernate, Cayenne, etc.) is getting closer, 31% thinks that WO is still ahead and will continue to be.
• Most popular alternatives that organizations look at: PHP, RoR and J2EE.
• Does your organization mainly use WebObjects for internal projects or external customers?
  • Customers outside our organization 43.4%
  • We host products/services ourselves 35%
  • Internal needs 21.4%
• What size of market are your customers in?
  • SOHO (1 to 9 employees) 8.7%
  • Small business (10 to 99 employees) 23.3%
  • Medium business (100 to 999 employees) 11.7%
  • Enterprise (1000 to 4999 employees) 10.7%
  • Large enterprise (5000+) 11.7%
  • Government 11.7%
  • College/university 5.9%
  • K-12 1.9%
• 70.9% of organizations are deploying their applications on Mac OS X.
• Are you looking at RIA solutions?
  • No, it’s AJAX or plain old HTML for us 64.1%
  • Adobe Flex 41.7%
  • Java Swing 10.7%
  • JavaFX 9.7%
  • Microsoft SilverLight 6.8%
  • OpenLaszlo 4.9%
  • Mozilla XUL 4.9%
  • Flash 1%
• 88% of organizations still use WebObjects for new projects.
• 10.7% of organizations stopped, or is planning to stop, using WebObjects.
• Main reasons of leaving WO: hard to find developers, deprecation of tools and deprecation of Windows support.
• Is someone at your local Apple office aware that your organization uses WebObjects?
  • 42.7% Yes
  • 50.5% No
  • 6.8% We don’t have Apple offices in our country
• Average numbers of users per organization: 39 558
  • Per organization type
    • External customers: 24 301
    • Hosted services: 78 520
    • Internal needs: 2122
• WebObjects the primary development environment at 68% of the organizations.

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