The Survey in January 2013

Doesn't time just fly by? In march 2011 we looked at the survey that was included in the Blog to find out what version of S1000D was being used.

The results at that time were:

S1000D Issue	Percentage
Issue 1 Change 6	27
Issue 1 Change 7	7
Issue 1 Change 8	13
Issue 1 Change 9	40
Issue 2 Change 0	13

You may remember that I commented on the fact that apparently no-one was using anything later than Issue 2.0 and that I thought that this was a dubious result. I happened to know that there were a number of projects that were using Issue 2.n but that perhaps people from this group of users had not yet found the Blog.

Well it looks as if I was right. Although the Survey questions were the same the results are now being shown in a much more pleasing way i.e. graphically rather then tabular as you can see below.

The Results

So what S1000D Issue are you using?

The total number of respondents is now 71. As you can see above, now the largest single version being used is Issue 4 representing just under 30% of those who took part - some might think that this is a little hight.  Unfortunately I did not keep a note of the number of previous respondents.

Are you using a CSDB

The result of this question last time was 70% Yay and 30% Nay.

The result shown above indicates that more are using CSDBs. This of course, reflects that there are now applications of a more modest cost of both purchase and maintenance. Previously there were only heavyweights. Apart from one or two 'in-house' specials there were few if any less costly solutions.

I guess that the result also reflects the fact that a number of companies have tried to keep track of the production of data modules using a spreadsheet and realised that this is not the best method and can be hard work.

How many views

In putting this Blog on the web today I spotted that since we started there have been nearly 21,000 views of this page with 375 in December 2012 alone. I find that amazing.

Keep the entries coming. I will have a straw poll to see about resetting the data so that we can have a more up to date poll.