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Company Participation in Open Source
1.
What company do you work for? (Platinum and Gold members of the OpenStack Foundation listed alphabetically)
99Cloud Inc.
Aptira
AT&T
Canonical
CCAT
China Mobile
China Telecom
Cisco
City Network
Dell EMC
Deutsche Telekom
EasyStack
Ericsson
Fujitsu
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hitachi
Huawei
IBM
Inspur
Intel
inwinSTACK
Juniper Networks
Mirantis
NEC
NetApp
Rackspace
Red Hat
SUSE
UnitedStack Inc.
ZTE Corporation
Other (please specify)
2.
Which of the following best describe your job function? (Check all that apply)
Business Development
Engineering/Development
Executive Leadership
Finance
Legal
Management
Marketing
Product Management
Sales
Strategy
Other (please specify)
3.
In what ways does the company engage with open source software? (Check all that apply)
Internal collaboration practices inspired by open source models (sometimes called “InnerSource”)
Use open source software internally
Deliver open source software to customers
Integrate open source with proprietary software for customers
Release open source software with no external contributions, only internal development
Release open source software with some external contributions, but development predominantly by a single company
Release open source software with active external contributions
Contribute employee time, code, infrastructure, funding, or other resources to an open source project led by a community
Participate as a member of an open source community, as co-leaders together with individuals and other companies
Other (please specify)
4.
The company regards externally available open source innovation as a strategic component for building competitive advantage.
Strongly disagree
Disagree
Neutral
Agree
Strongly agree
Strongly disagree
Disagree
Neutral
Agree
Strongly agree
5.
The company systematically tracks trends in open source innovation, and their relevance to business strategy.
Strongly disagree
Disagree
Neutral
Agree
Strongly agree
Strongly disagree
Disagree
Neutral
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Strongly agree
6.
The company communicates product goals with related open source projects, to influence short-term and long-term strategic direction, and to increase opportunities for collaboration and sharing development costs.
Strongly disagree
Disagree
Neutral
Agree
Strongly agree
Strongly disagree
Disagree
Neutral
Agree
Strongly agree
7.
In what ways does the company add value for customers beyond publicly available open source code? (Check all that apply)
Software integration
Hardware integration
Support
Services related to the software
Software deployed as a service (for example, public/private cloud)
Improvements for customer use cases and workloads
Releases timed to meet customers’ needs
Domain expertise, help customers get the most out of open source innovation
Other (please specify)
8.
The company maintains a rapid time-to-market on product releases of open source code, by minimizing proprietary changes that have to be merged with each new upstream release.
Strongly disagree
Disagree
Neutral
Agree
Strongly agree
Strongly disagree
Disagree
Neutral
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Strongly agree
9.
The company has communication channels where employees from different teams interact and collaborate regularly around successes and challenges with particular open source projects.
Strongly disagree
Disagree
Neutral
Agree
Strongly agree
Strongly disagree
Disagree
Neutral
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Strongly agree
10.
The company rewards employees for building individual reputations in open source communities.
Strongly disagree
Disagree
Neutral
Agree
Strongly agree
Strongly disagree
Disagree
Neutral
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Strongly agree
11.
Do you have any other thoughts or comments?