Enterprise-ready Open Source

Would you use Ubuntu as corporate wide operative system?

And about MySql? Are you willing to use it in the next release of your CRM solution?
Optaros, an international firm that provides consulting and system integration services, published a report (you have to register to download the report) where they point 260 open source products/projects y.
This is good tool to use when sitting down with your CEO or CIO trying convincing him to adopt Open Source Software.
Find the report here (you have to register to download the report)

Regards,

JP

Written by j.pereira on January 17th, 2007 with 2 comments.
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Do your surveys

QuestionForm, a Portuguese service, is a powerful tool and innovative service, from my perspective.

Citing from their site:

questionform is a new web application for creating, publishing and analysing multi-language online surveys and forms.

They have two types of accounts, a paid account and a free account. I started to test the free account (may be I’ll be buying one paid account soon).
In the free account you have only 2 surveys available.

I started to sign up, the signup process is very simple and intuitive. By siging up you get a sub-domain from QuestionForm. Mine is jpereira.questionform.com
A minor point at sign up process. When asked for the e-mail I could read “must be a valid e-mail address, confirmation will be required”. However, I haven’t any email in my inbox for this purpose, although I can use the service.

When you create a new survey, you get an URI . The URIs is the way every service will be known in the future . I created the “MyFirstSurvey” and you can reach it here .
The interface is very, very simple with drag&drop features and a properties box per element. Nice done!!.
One of the minor bugs I found is about the back button on the Browser. Unfortunately is a hard-to-deal problem in this kind of applications. I’ve lost a survey by accidentally pressing the “Backspace” key when the focus was in the wrong place
However, they have great features. You can publish your survey at your pages or blogs, send invitation by e-mail, redirect the pages, apply themes, use multilinguages, see statistics and much more, though in beta version.
The features of redirecting pages and applying themes will be only available in the paid version.
The usability? I loved it, but I’m not the right person to talk about it. Maybe Ivo can give a shot here.

Thanks for the nice tool.
Bottom line: I feel that a private area would be great, where participants could only fill the surveys by identifying themselves, by a code generated by the tool and automatically sent to the participants email, in the invitation. May be also planned?

Thanks to Hugo Silva for pointing this service in his post about iPhone .

Try it, it’s free.

regards,

JP

Written by j.pereira on January 17th, 2007 with no comments.
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