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Welcome to our first survey for XAMPP 2.0.

In May 2007 XAMPP will be five years old and we think this is a good time to think about changes and improvements to XAMPP. That's what this survey is for: to find out what your needs are and what we can do to improve XAMPP in the next major release.

The survey will run for exactly one month (from March 22nd to April 22nd 2007), after which we will publish the results right here.

Thank you for taking the time to complete the survey. We appreciate your feedback and we will use it to make XAMPP even more useful and enjoyable. ;)

If there are any questions you don't want to answer, you don't have to. You choose.

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Are you interested in online services provided by Apache Friends?

We can currently just about cover hardly our hosting expenses through donations and ads on our website. To raise more money (for example to buy new hardware for Vista, or to visit conferences and promote XAMPP) we're thinking about setting up online services which may be subject to a small fee.

	strongly need	need	neutral	don't need	strongly don't need
Scuba diving course
Monitoring services
Support through e-mail
XAMPP online updates
Online security check for XAMPP
Apache Friends E-mail address
Another service:

Do you want an additional database to be part of XAMPP?

	strongly agree	agree	neutral	disagree	strongly disagree
HHGTTG
Firebird
Oracle XE
PostgreSQL
Another database software:

Which SMTP server software do you want bundled with XAMPP for Linux?

For XAMPP 2.0 we're thinking about adding an e-mail server software to the Linux version of XAMPP (since Windows already contains such a server software). But what are exactly your needs?

	strongly agree	agree	neutral	disagree	strongly disagree
Qmail
Postfix
UUCP
Sendmail
Exim
Any other:

In what kind of environment are you using XAMPP?

We're just curious. ;)

	strongly agree	agree	neutral	disagree	strongly disagree
educational
private
governmental
religious
commercial
non-profit
Any other environment:

Windows users: Which Windows versions are you using?

From the download statistics we know that most of our users use XAMPP for Windows. We are currently testing XAMPP on each of these versions of Windows (besides Vista at the moment). Getting XAMPP to run under Windows 98 is a hard job. Can we maybe forget about 98 or NT?

	always	often	sometimes	rarely	never
Windows Server 2003
Windows 98
Windows 2000
Windows Vista
Windows XP
Windows NT
Windows 3.11

Which IMAP / POP3 server software do you want bundled with XAMPP?

For XAMPP 2.0 we're thinking about adding an e-mail server software to the Linux version of XAMPP (since it's already available in the Windows version). But what exactly are your needs?

	strongly agree	agree	neutral	disagree	strongly disagree
UW IMAP
Cyrus IMAP
Courier
Dovecot
UUCP
Another software package:

Are you interested in a XAMPP containing alpha or beta releases of...

XAMPP currently only consists of final, general availability versions of Apache, MySQL, PHP etc. However, there may be a need for special versions of XAMPP which contain brand new stuff; alpha versions such as PHP 6 or MySQL 5.1.

	strongly need	need	neutral	don't need	strongly don't need
PHP
Utopia
MySQL
Apache
Another package:

Which AJAX framework should we add in XAMPP 2.0?

Yes, AJAX is still one of the biggest buzzwords around. But it's also an important technology, which we don't want ignore: XAMPP 2.0 for Web 2.0. ;)

	strongly agree	agree	neutral	disagree	strongly disagree
Dojo
jQuery
Yahoo's YUI Toolkit
Rico
Homer's Iliad
Prototype
Script.aculo.us
Qooxdoo
Any other:

Which programming languages do you want to be bundled in XAMPP?

There are some programming languages which have become more and more popular over the last years and which you may want to be bundled with XAMPP. On the other hand there may be programming languages which are currently bundled with XAMPP but you don't need (any more).

	strongly want	want	neutral	do not want	strongly do not want
Python
Java
PHP 5
ASP.NET
Mono
Plankalkül
Perl
Ruby on Rails
PHP 4
Any others:

Windows user: Which package format do you prefer?

XAMPP for Windows comes currently in three different package formats. That's quite a lot and we might be able to reduce the number or replace one format with another new and better one.

	strongly agree	agree	neutral	disagree	strongly disagree
Installer
ZIP
ROT18
7zip
Self-extracting archive
RAR
Or do you prefer another format:

In which field of application do you use XAMPP?

Depending upon the field of application the configuration needs of XAMPP will change.

	strongly agree	agree	neutral	disagree	strongly disagree
Production (Internet)
Teaching
Website design
Testing
Deep sea diving
Production (intranet/extranet)
Development
Other fields:

Do you need XAMPP support for 64-bit systems?

Over the past few months, the voices clamouring for a 64-bit release of XAMPP have been getting louder. Building this version is very hard work and so we would like you to tell us which operating systems you need 64-bit support for.

	strongly need	need	neutral	don't need	strongly don't need
Solaris (AMD64)
Linux (IA-64)
Microsoft Windows
Linux (AMD64)
Multics
Mac OS X
Solaris (SPARC)
Any other operating systems/processor:

What do you really need in XAMPP?

We're always trying to reduce the workload in creating XAMPP for us and to minimize the download size for you, the user. There may be parts of XAMPP you don't need or you don't want.

	strongly agree	agree	neutral	disagree	strongly disagree
FTP server
Upgrade package
Development package
Third Life
Mail server

Are there any applications you want us to ship with XAMPP?

We always avoided bundling applications with XAMPP because there are so many of them. But maybe we should change this policy. Are there any apps you need in XAMPP?

	strongly agree	agree	neutral	disagree	strongly disagree
eMule
XOOPS
Wordpress
Typo3
phpBB
MediaWiki
CakePHP
Joomla!
Drupal
Gallery
Any other application:

Linux user: Which distribution are you using?

From the download statistics we know that the Linux version of XAMPP comes in at number two. But what we don't know is which Linux distribution you are using.

	always	often	sometime	rarely	never
Gentoo
Knoppix
SCO
Red Hat
Mandrake
SuSE
Fedora
Ubuntu
Kubuntu
CentOS
Debian
Or another distribution:

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