On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 23:23:39 +0100, "Flachland Tapir" <flachlandtapir@...2061...9...> wrote:
A research under a scientific aspect has to set up a hypothesis and verify it.
Given your hypothesis:
I claim that the application in a professional workflow isn't mature compared to proprietary software used in the CMS. The effort for maintaining OSGS exceeds the costs & benefits you could save when using free software.
...then there are two fundamental problems with the survey:
1) It makes no attempt to address objective "costs & benefits"; many of the questions are entirely subjective and difficult to quantify ("How do you feel about X?"). The "effort for maintaining" OSGS and proprietary equivalents must be quantified in some way.
2) The hypothesis concerns the relative maturity of "OSGS" versus proprietary equivalents, yet the survey barely treats the proprietary software at all. The same questions ought to be asked about each (of the same people!) so that you have a basis for comparison.
-mental