世論 What Japan Thinks

japan.internet.com recently reported on a survey conducted by JR Tokai Express Research into server operating systems in small and medium-sized businesses. On the 10th of March 330 people employed in companies with less than 100 people, working in management, board-level, sales, technical or other specialist positions completed the survey. It may be worth comparing the results here with a previous survey on desktop operating systems.

Demographics

86.4% of the sample was male, 5.2% in their twenties, 39.1% in their thirties, 41.8% in their forties, 8.8% in their fifties, and 5.2% in their sixties.

Being in a large company, I don’t count for this survey, although our intranet seems to be powered by some sort of Linux-based system, I suspect. Within each team, however, file servers tend to be Windows; no-one is terribly interested in setting up anything more advanced, and in fact… ahh, perhaps I might get into company confidential information, so I’d better stop now.

Survey results

Q1: Do you have a server at your place of work? (Sample size=330)

Yes (to SQs)	65.5%
No	27.3%
Don’t know	7.3%

Q1SQ: What operating systems do the servers (web server, application server, database server included) at your place of work use? (Sample size=216)

	Votes	Percentage
Windows 2000	83	38.4%
Windows 2003	54	25.0%
Windows NT	40	18.5%
Linux	36	16.7%
UNIX	13	6.0%
Mainframe OS	5	2.3%
Don’t know	53	24.5%
Other	6	2.8%

These 216 people were then asked about upgrade plans; 35 people (or 16.2%) said their company was investigating the situation, and of these 35, 22 said there was a definite plan to move servers within a few years. These 22 people were then asked what

Q1SQ2: From what operating system to what operating system do you plan to move to? (Sample size=22)

	Votes	Percentage
Upgrade to newer Windows version	15	68.2%
Upgrade to newer Linux version	2	9.1%
From Windows to Linux	1	4.5%
From mainframe to Windows	0	0.0%
From mainframe to Linux	0	0.0%
From UNIX to Windows	0	0.0%
From UNIX to Linux	0	0.0%
Upgrade to newer UNIX version	0	0.0%
Don’t know	3	13.6%
Other	2	9.1%

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