Appendix. About the Respondents

The survey drew 1,379 respondents from organizations of many types and sizes. Some of their traits follow:

• Most organizations were small: 35.6% had 100 or fewer employees, and 39% had five or fewer members. But we also got substantial responses from larger organizations. For instance, 16.9% had more than 10,000 employees, and 13.6% had teams with more than 20 members.

• Deployment sizes also varied, but almost half (47.7%) had more than one hundred hosts. (There was no breakdown of this large group.) The rest of the respondents were scattered across various deployment sizes.

• Deployment locations varied, but cloud usage was common, with respondents classifying themselves as:

  • Some public cloud: 44.2%

  • Mostly public cloud: 20.7%

  • All public cloud: 16.8%

• Open source was in widespread use. Respondents rated their use as:

  • None: 4.4%

  • Some, but not in production: 6.4%

  • Some, including production: 38.9%

  • Broad adoption: 26.6%

  • Open source first wherever possible: 23.7%

• Experience levels were varied, with between 25% and 30% in each of the categories “Intermediate,” “Middle Management,” and “Senior Management.” Another 13.4% identified themselves as “Owner/Executive/C-Level.”

• The most common industry sending responses was “Software” (301 respondents). Additional categories with large numbers of respondents included:

  • Finance & Banking: 127 respondents

  • Consulting & Professional Services: 126 respondents

  • Telecommunications: 74 respondents

  • Government: 72 respondents

  • Healthcare: 60 respondents

  • Computers, Electronics, & Hardware: 55 respondents