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OPEN TELECOM IN THE MIDDLE EAST,
WHOS READY AND WHOS NOT

Section A.
Title:		Full Name :
Designation :		Phone :
Fax :		Mobile :
E-mail :		Website :
Company :		Type of Business :
P.O. Box :		City :

Section B.

1. Which BEST describes your job?

(Check one only)

CEO or President
CTO, CIO or Director
IT, MIS or Other Management
Departmental Development manager
Product Manager
Programmer / software engineer
Project lead / team leader
Systems analyst
Software architect
Technical Architect
Other -

2. Which of the following best describes the size of your company?

(Check one only)

1-10 employees
11-25 employees
26-50 employees
51-100 employees
101-500 employees
501-1,000 employees
1,001-5,000 employees
More than 5,000 employees

3. How large is your development staff (including software developers and IT personnel)?

(Check one only)

1-5
6-10
11-25
26-50
51-100
101-500
501-1,000
More than 1,000

4. Which of the following best describes the type of applications you work on MOST OFTEN?

(Check one only)

Commercial applications for sale to people outside your company (ISV)
Custom applications of any kind for clients outside your company (SI, VAR)
Corporate-wide enterprise applications for use inside your company (Corp Enterprise)
Applications for individuals or small workgroups inside your company
Applications or utilities to support specific devices your company makes or sells (OEM)
Scientific/engineering or intensive computation graphics
Other -

5. What percent of your time is spent developing mobile applications:

(Check one only)

0%
1 - 25%
26 - 50%
51 - 75%
76 - 99%
100%

6. What percent of your mobile applications are:

(Please write in whole numbers)

% - Extensions of applications already written for NON-mobile use
% - Extensions of applications already written for mobile use
% - Brand new applications written specifically for mobile use

7. What type of mobile software are you developing?

(Check all that apply)

Client / server applications
Customer relationship management
Databases
Development tools
Embedded software (e.g. firmware)
E-commerce tools or applications
Field force automation applications
Games
Line of Business applications
Printing applications
MMS applications
Sales force automation applications
SMS applications
Web applications
Other -

8. What is the size of the intended user audience for your mobile applications?

(Check one only)

< 10
10 - 50
51 - 100
101 - 500
501 - 1000
> 1000

9. On which mobile devices are you CURRENTLY deploying your application?

(Check all that apply)

Mobile phone (cell phone, etc)
Smart phones
PDAs (like Palm, iPAQ, etc)
Industrial Handheld (Symbol, Intermec, etc)
Wearable Computers
Notebooks / Laptops operating wirelessly
TabletPCs
Other -

10. Which mobile devices do you plan to support NEXT YEAR?

(Check all that apply)

Mobile phone (cell phone, etc)
Smart phones
PDAs (like Palm, iPAQ, etc)
Industrial Handheld (Symbol, Intermec, etc)
Wearable Computers
Notebooks / Laptops operating wirelessly
TabletPCs
Other -

11. Which platform operating environments will your mobile apps target?

(Check all that apply)

AppForge Booster
BREW
J2ME
Java (not J2ME)
Linux
Microsoft.NET Compact Framework
Microsoft Windows CE / Pocket PC
Microsoft Smartphone
Palm OS
RIM Blackberry
Symbian OS
Other -

12. When choosing a target platform, how important are each of the following?

(Check one per row)

13. When do you expect to DEVELOP Web services enabled applications for mobile devices?

(Check one only)

I am currently doing this
Within the next 6 months
6 to 12 months from now
12 to 24 months from now
More than 24 months from now
Never

14. When do you expect to DEPLOY Web services enabled applications for mobile devices?

(Check one only)

I am currently doing this
Within the next 6 months
6 to 12 months from now
12 to 24 months from now
More than 24 months from now
Never

15. Which of the following seems to you like the MOST significant barrier to developing and deploying distributed applications for mobile devices using Web services?

(Check one only)

Ambiguity in Web services standards
How to architect and integrate services-oriented application architectures
Authentication
End-to-end security
Transaction throughput due to overhead of processing XML
Application administration and management
Establishing trust between companies participating in e-Business apps
Incompatibility with wireless applications and environments
Lack of development tools, or incompatibility of tools
Change management
Latency / unreliability of connection
Other -

16. What percent of your programming time do you spend using the following languages TODAY?

(Please write in whole numbers; Should total 100%)

% - C or C++
% - C#
% - J#
% - Visual Basic (not .NET)
% - Visual Basic.NET
% - Java for J2ME
% - Java for J2SE or J2EE
% - XML
% - 4GL
% - Other

17. What percent of your programming time do you plan to spend using the following languages NEXT YEAR?

(Please write in whole numbers; Should total 100%)

% - C or C++
% - C#
% - J#
% - Visual Basic (not .NET)
% - Visual Basic.NET
% - Java for J2ME
% - Java for J2SE or J2EE
% - XML
% - 4GL
% - Other

18. Which of the following Integrated Development Environments (IDE) do you prefer to use for development?

(Check all that apply)

BEA Weblogic Workshop
Borland JBuilder
Borland Delphi
Eclipse
IBM Websphere Studio
IBM Visual Age
IntelliJ
Microsoft Visual Basic (not .NET)
Microsoft Visual Studio (not .NET)
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
Oracle9iAS Web Services / Oracle9i JDeveloper
Macromedia Studio MX
Sun Java Studio (formerly Sun ONE Studio)
Other -

19. Please indicate your plans for the following server technologies:

(Check one per row)

20. What are the barriers to deploying mobile applications in YOUR organization?

(Check all that apply)

Difficulty integrating with legacy apps
Device cost
Current device capabilities
Infrastructure cost
Insufficient value proposition
Insufficient development staff (not enough developer head count)
Lack of specific technology know-how
No Demand
Security concerns
Other -

21. Please rate your expectations for the following technologies:

(Check one per row)

22. Please indicate your plans for enabling the following capabilities in your wireless device(s).

(Check one per row)

Additional comments:

Thank you, that completes our survey.