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The Symfony Community Survey 2012: The Results
Before the Symfony Live Conference in Paris, we conducted the first Symfony
community
survey. The
raffle winners will soon be contacted by Anne-Sophie.
And without further ado, here are the survey results!
About you
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What is your job?
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Developer
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986
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82%
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Consultant
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47
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4%
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Project Manager
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70
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6%
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Other
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93
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8%
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People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%.
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How long have you been working with Symfony?
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Less than a year
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381
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32%
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Less than 2 years
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261
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22%
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Less than 5 years
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409
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34%
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More than 5 years
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144
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12%
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People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%.
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How did you get to know symfony?
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The Symfony Website
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270
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23%
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Some PHP related website
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281
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23%
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A conference or a meetup
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37
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3%
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A book or a magazine
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21
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2%
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A colleague
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341
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29%
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I don't remember
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139
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12%
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Other
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107
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9%
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People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%.
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About your company
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What kind of company do you work for?
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I am a self-employed
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328
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27%
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I work for an IT solution provider
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517
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43%
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I work for an internal IT department within a company
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264
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22%
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Other
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87
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7%
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People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%.
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What is the size of your company?
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I'm alone
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196
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16%
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2-5 people
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254
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21%
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6-20 people
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278
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23%
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21-50 people
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182
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15%
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51-500 people
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198
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17%
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501-5000 people
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48
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4%
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More than 5001 people
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39
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3%
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People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%.
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How do you work with Symfony?
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Do you use any other PHP framework/CMS?
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Zend Framework
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460
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51%
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CakePHP
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98
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11%
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Code igniter
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127
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14%
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Yii
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56
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6%
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Kohana
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42
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5%
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Typo3
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61
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7%
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Drupal
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252
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28%
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Joomla!
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152
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17%
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Wordpress
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447
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49%
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eZ Publish
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24
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3%
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Other
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125
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14%
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People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%.
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What is your primary OS on your development machine?
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Windows
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288
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24%
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Linux
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485
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41%
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Mac OSX
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407
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34%
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Other
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16
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1%
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People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%.
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What tools do you use for development?
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Zend Studio
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71
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6%
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Eclipse
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273
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24%
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NetBeans
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459
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40%
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Vim
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287
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25%
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Textmate
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116
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10%
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PhpStorm
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239
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21%
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SublimeText
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125
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11%
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Other
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168
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15%
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People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%.
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What you are doing with Symfony?
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What kind of jobs do you usually get?
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Development
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1159
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98%
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Support
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208
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18%
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Trainings
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109
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9%
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Consultancy
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244
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21%
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Project management
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318
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27%
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Other
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20
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2%
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People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%.
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What is the average size of projects that you/your company work on?
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less than 10K USD
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367
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31%
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10K-50K USD
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394
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33%
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50K - 150K USD
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188
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16%
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150K - 300K USD
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75
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6%
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more than 300K USD
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97
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8%
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People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%.
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How do you get trained?
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Do you take trainings on IT/IT management?
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Never
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722
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60%
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At least once per year
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310
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26%
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3 to 5 times a year
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90
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8%
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Nearly every month
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73
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6%
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People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%.
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How do you get trained?
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By reading books
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938
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78%
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By reading blogs and other documents on the Web
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1135
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95%
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With online training courses
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299
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25%
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In a training class of a training center
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127
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11%
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In a training class of an IT service provider
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64
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5%
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Other
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96
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8%
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People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%.
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Do you own one or more IT certifications?
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None, and I don't care
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487
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42%
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None, but I'd like to get some
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453
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39%
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PHP
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129
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11%
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Zend Framework
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20
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2%
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MySQL
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25
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2%
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Some Microsoft certifications
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51
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4%
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Other
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90
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8%
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People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%.
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Would you be interested in getting a Symfony certification?
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Absolutely
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454
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38%
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Rather interested
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473
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40%
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Not interested
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268
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22%
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People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%.
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The Symfony Community Survey 2012: The Results
by
Fabien Potencier
– July 26, 2012
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Will people rewrite WP on top of Symfony2 ?
You should do that every year with comparison.
WP on top of Symfony2 would be awesome for the community !
PS : I still don't have the badge ! lol
Maybe next time, you should ask for both development system and productive system. Because you told at Symfony Live Paris, you're not sure that most of people had understood this question correctly.
But hey! Anyway, this are quite cool results!
Best regards from Uruguay.
really intersetd results.
Thank You SensioLabs!
... very informative and interesting statistics
Greetings to all the symfony community :D
The point is that WP is more complicated and smart then you think !