IDC, an independent world-wide market research company, is conducting a worldwide survey to get a developer's perspective on open source software in collaboration with several large IT vendors, including Borland.

We encourage your participation in this survey regardless of what role you may play in the software development life cycle, and whether you are an individual contributor or a manager.

The results of this survey will be made available in a variety of forms to information technology vendors. Please be assured that the information you provide is intended to be used only in aggregation with the answers of other respondents.

If you complete the survey and provide your email address, all of the following incentives will be made available to you.

• Access later to a pre-selected IDC publication
• Access to a selected subset of this survey's results when they become available

The survey is Web-based, and will be open for six weeks starting February 20, 2006. The survey is available in English, Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese.

Click here to take the survey

This survey should take approximately 30 minutes to complete.

Thank you for your participation.