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Last May XAMPP became 10 years old and we think this is a good time to think again about changes and improvements to XAMPP. That's what this survey is for: to find out what are your needs and what we can do to improve XAMPP in future releases.

The survey will run for about one month (until end of September), 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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This whole survey is absolutely anonymous. We don't collect any personally identifiable information at all.

The orders of questions and answers are determined randomly and are not subject to any preferences.

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This survey consists only of these 8 questions you see on this page. There are no more pages.

What are your wishes for a future XAMPP?

If you have any wishes for future versions of XAMPP, please let us know what you think. Yes, the possible answers are very general and unspecific, but it's a question about the future and we want to keep it as open as possible. Please feel free to use the "something else" field, if you have other or more specific ideas.

	strongly agree	agree	neutral	disagree	strongly disagree
Support for mobile phones
Support for cloud provider
Secured/sandboxed XAMPP
64 bit binaries
High availability support
Scalability support
More and detailed documentation
A unified web application platform
Something else:

In what kind of environment are you using XAMPP?

Depending upon the environment XAMPP may need other default configuration settings to fit its purpose. Currently we're focusing on developers and use a very open (but insecure) configuration. And this is obviously not a good idea for a system used in production.

	strongly agree	agree	neutral	disagree	strongly disagree
Production
Testing
Teaching
Development
Website design
Any other environment:

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
Ruby
JavaScript
PHP
Perl
ASP.NET
Any others:

Where are you hosting your PHP applications?

This one is similar to the environment question. This helps us to identify where we need to implement interfaces or how we can help you to deploy your application.

	always	often	sometimes	rarely	never
On a VPS (virtual private server)
Installed on a local machine
In the cloud
Running in a local virtual machine
On a shared hosting environment
On a dedicated server (or servers)

If you use a hosting provider, which one do you use?

We want spread the word of XAMPP, and for that we need to know, what are your favorite hosting providers.

	always	often	sometimes	rarely	never
Rackspace
Host Europe
Strato
bluehost
Windows Azure
Hetzner
Host Gator
GoDaddy
1&1
Amazon
Other:

In which sector do you use XAMPP?

We're just curious. ;) But seriously, the answer to this question could become important in relation to other questions, we're asking. For example, if you use XAMPP on a more personal basis, features like scalablilty or high availability may not be so valuable for you.

	strongly agree	agree	neutral	disagree	strongly disagree
governmental
commercial
non-profit
educational
personal
Other fields:

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

10 years ago, when we started XAMPP, MySQL was the most popular database management system around the Internet. Times are changing and for example NoSQL databases are getting more and more common. If you miss your favorite DB please use the "other" field.

	strongly agree	agree	neutral	disagree	strongly disagree
MariaDB
DB2
Oracle
Interbase/Firebird
MongoDB
PostgreSQL
CouchDB
Another database software:

Which OS versions are you using?

From the download statistics we know that most of our users use XAMPP for Windows and Linux. But we don't know which versions of these OSs are your mostly used. (Sorry for the long list, but our QA wants to know this very detailed.)

	always	often	sometimes	rarely	never
Linux Red Hat
Linux CentOS
Linux Fedora
Linux Ubuntu
Linux SuSE
Linux Debian
Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2008
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 7
Windows 8
Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion)
Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)
Solaris 10
Solaris 11
Other(s):