SHARE Announces Attendee Poll Results at 50th Anniversary Conference, Names Most Influential People and Events of Business Computing's First 50 Years.BOSTON Boston, town, England Boston, town (1991 pop. 26,495), E central England, on the Witham River. Boston's fame as a port dates from the 13th cent., when it was a Hanseatic port trading wool and wine. Having recovered from a decline in the 18th and 19th cent. -- Survey was conducted between August 4 and 15, 2005. Pre-registered attendees for SHARE User Events in Boston (August 22-26) were invited to participate. 444 individuals completed this online survey. Official results were announced at SHARE User Events in Boston on Monday Monday: see week. August 22, 2005. The results of this survey are presented below. 1. In your opinion, which ONE of these emerging trends will most influence business computing the remainder of this decade? Information Security 31% Shortage of qualified enterprise class IT professionals 17% Outsourcing/Offshoring of applications development and maintenance 14% Interoperability and integration 12% On demand computing 10% Aligning IT with business objectives 7% Enterprise Architecture 3% IT Governance and Services Reform 3% Other 2% IT Procurement Reform 1% Base 442 2. Name ONE product OR service offering from IBM over the past 25 years which, in your opinion, has proved to be the most significant to IBM business computing users overall? (Top 7 answers appear below, beginning with most popular response) -- DB2 Universal Database -- CICS -- MVS -- z/OS -- IBM PC -- WebSphere -- Parallel Sysplex 3. Imagine it's the year 2015...in retrospect, which ONE of the following do you feel will prove to be the LEAST effective or most wasteful use of IT resources? Sarbanes-Oxley compliance 28% Deployment of unproven technologies 23% Purchase of unneeded technologies 19% Continuing support for outdated technologies 17% External consultants 10% Other 3% Software upgrades 1% Base 441 4. In your opinion, which ONE technological innovation has had the most significant impact on business computing over the past half century? (Top 7 responses appear below, beginning with most popular response) -- Internet -- Personal computers -- System/360 (S/360) -- World Wide Web -- Mainframe -- Integrated circuit -- TCP/IP 5. Which THREE of the following people have, in your opinion, had the greatest impact on business computing in the past half century? Bill Gates 55% Thomas J. Watson, Jr. 40% Gene Amdahl 39% Tim Berners-Lee 31% Jack Kilby 22% Grace Hopper 19% Vinton Cerf 19% Ted Codd 14% Linus Torvalds 10% Steve Jobs 8% Marc Andeesen 7% Gordon Moore 6% Other 4% James Gosling 2% Philip Zimmerman 2% Richard Stallman 2% Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman 2% Alan Kay 1% Base 444 About SHARE SHARE is an independent, volunteer-run association providing IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) customers with user-focused education, professional networking, and a forum to influence the Information Technology (IT) industry. Since 1955, SHARE has enabled IT professionals to achieve business results through a combination of credible, relevant programs and peer interaction opportunities. SHARE currently counts more than 2,100 organizations among its active member ranks. Additional information about SHARE can be found on its Web site at www.share.org See .org. (networking) org - The top-level domain for organisations or individuals that don't fit any other top-level domain (national, com, edu, or gov). Though many have .org domains, it was never intended to be limited to non-profit organisations. RFC 1591. . |
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