Help me out here with a question that came up over lunch with coworkers. Please take a couple minutes to answer the following questions (well one question and some demographic data). Thanx.
1) Name the five most important software companies. Don’t think about this too hard. Just name them in the order they come to you.
2) What do you do for a living?
3) Are you male or female?
4) How old are you?
5) Do you consider yourself a geek?
Microsoft, Oracle, Apple, Macromedia, Adobe. Wait, the last two merged. Ummm … Blizzard. (But then I’ve been playing too much WoW.)
Web server administrator, male, 31, geek.
1. Microsoft, Apple, Lotus, Rockstar Games, Quicken [?]
2. ticket pimp
3. Male
4. 39
5. reformed geek, cause I can afford it now
1. Microsoft. IBM. Adobe. Apple. Oracle.
2. Engineering, hand held computers and mobile peripherals.
3. Female.
4. 25.
5. Yes, I am a geek.
1. ibm, microsoft, adobe, ea, apple
2. i was a programmer, but now i’m a stay at home mom
3. female
4. 28
5. yup
1. Microsoft…
2. Coding Liaison
3. male
4. 34
5. Yep
1. Microsoft, Oracle, EA, IBM, Adobe.
2. Software engineer
3. Female
4. 24
5. Yes
1) Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, EA
2) Coder/Designer
3) male
4) 28
5) sure
.joe.
1. Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, IBM, er… EA?
2. Retail.
3. Female.
4. 25.
5. Sure, I have some geeklish tendencies.
1) I couldn’t think of 5 without peeking at other people’s answers. I came up with “uh…Microsoft?” It’s not really something I think about much unless it’s topical.
2) info design.
3) f
4) 27
5) I cry from happiness when watching the original non-fucked around-with Star Wars movies. what do YOU think?
1. Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Palm, uh…
2. Caregiver
3. Female
4. 50
5. Wannabe
1) Microsoft, EA, Oracle, Apple, um… IBM?
2) Well, at the moment I’m a programmer again, but soon I will be a grad student in a less technical field.
3)Female
4) 28
5) I’m a female programmer — I think I pretty much have to be. Not a real hardcore geek, though.
1) Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, Apple, Oracle
2) Software Engineer
3) Male
4) 24
5) Yes
1) Name the five most important software companies. Don’t think about this too hard. Just name them in the order they come to you.
2) What do you do for a living?
3) Are you male or female?
4) How old are you?
5) Do you consider yourself a geek?
1) Apple, Microsoft, Palm, Norton, Adobe
2) Goverment – project assistant
3) Female
4) 25
5) Self-identification is horrible with research. But yes, a geek. No, not a computer geek.
Microsoft
Sun
Oracle
IBM
Digital Research
(those aren’t strictly software companies, of course)
27. I think you know the rest.
Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, Macromedia, Mozilla
Teacher
Female
23
Sure
Is Google a software company? I was going to choose them before Mozilla, but I wasn’t sure if they would count.
I vote yes.
1. IBM, Microsloth, Oracle, CA, Symantec
2. I am a learning content developer for software (middleware) products.
3. female
4. 34
5. Maybe.
1) Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple, Oracle
2) Analysis Systems Engineer
3) F
4) 26
5) sometimes
1. Apple, Google, Oracle, Intuit, PalmSource
2. disgruntled cataloger
3. male
4. 31
5. yes
Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun, HP.
System administrator for *nix machines. Sun/HP/Linux/whatever works.
Female.
32.
Oh, yeah, I’m a geek.
1)
Microsoft
Google (yes, web services are software)
Apple (yes, they make lots of software)
Cisco (yes, there is software in those boxes)
OSS Community (okay, it’s not a “company”)
2) Software Engineer/Researcher
3) M
4) 29
5) Y
1) Microsoft, Symantec, Oracle, Adobe, Sun did Java, right?
2) DRAM Design Engineer (semiconductor memories)
3) Male
4) 29
5) Yes
1) Microsoft, Adobe, EA, Autodesk, Apple
2) Computer software design
3) Female
4) 30
5) Yes, by the standards of most society.
If I didn’t work for Autodesk and could have thought of it, I’d probably have said Macromedia over Autodesk. 🙂
1) Microsoft, Oracle, EA, Macromedia, Epic
2) Programmer. (ColdFusion, currently)
3) Male
4) 30
5) Not as much as I used to be. I hate computers.
1) Microsoft, Adobe/Macromedia, Oracle, Alias/Wavefront, EA (sigh)
2) Video game producer
3) Female
4) 24
5) Definitely a geek, although not the top of the geek pantheon.
microsoft apple lavasoft macromedia adobe
(OK, my brain went “microsoft apple lavasoft”. And then it went “uhhhhhh”. And then it went “Oh! Macromedia, Adobe”.)
I work for CMU Computing Services
I am female
I am 28
I am sort of geeky, I guess
1) Apple, Adobe, Microsoft, Intuit, and MacSoft (well, MacSoft is important to me, anyway.)
2) Biomedical Engineering
3) Male
4) 30
5) Damn right
1. Google (duh!)
2. Microsoft (evil yet important)
3. Apple
4. red hat (still prob the biggest linux company)
5. EA Games
Datacenter Tech for google
Female
23
Hell yeah!
without checking the other answers first…
1. Seagate, Apple, Cisco, Microsoft, Oracle. And HP. And Norton. And…
2. something vaguely technical and web-related
3. female
4. 33
5. I’m more like a geek wannabe – I don’t know enough hardcore tech to really be a geek (and I don’t like RPGs and other geek-like activities).
Re: without checking the other answers first…
And now that I have, I don’t think Seagate even does software. I just drove by the building yesterday and it came to mind first. So strike that from my list.
1) Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, Bare Bones, Oracle
2) “Senior Programer Analyst” Linux/Apache/Oracle/PHP development
3) Boy
4) 30
5) Hells year
1. The Big MS, Apple, Nintendo, Google (if they count), and for my purposes the people who make FinalDraft
2. Doctoral Student, Fight Choreographer, Writer
3. Male
4. 31
5. No
Question 1 is particularly amusing to me today because of a passage I just heard from the beginning of Dirk Gently’s Holisitic Dective Agency by Douglas Adams about important software companies.
1) Microsoft, Sierra, Apple (or whoever makes their software), Oracle, Adobe
2) I’m a neuroscience grad student (I get paid to go to school).
3) Female
4) 25
5) Yes, consider myself a geek.