As a follow-up to the Sun Net Talk on OpenSPARC, an Expert Exchange, a live Q&A chat with Sun engineers on OpenSPARC was held on Wednesday, January 31 at 10am. The transcript is now available under the Expert Exchange archive.

The Expert Exchange was excellent. Lots of questions and answers, 29 in total. The chat application was very good, started without a fuss. One textarea to submit questions and another with the ongoing Q&A. My only negative comment would be that the chat monitor should have had a welcome message or a status that the exchange had started, since it was not obvious that it had. The first Q&A didn't appear until 12-15 minutes after 10am. Overall well worth the time spent. Below are the results from a short poll offerred during the session.

Highlights:

• 57 Live attendees (14 Sun employees)
• 29 Online questions answered
• 23 % of the audience completed the poll
• 69% of the audience responding to the poll are interested in adopting course work for OpenSPARC and Cool Tools

The Polling Results are very interesting

• 23% of the audience completed the poll
• 21 Started the poll, 13 Completed the poll

1. Have you downloaded the OpenSPARC source code?
      No - 58%
      Yes - 42%
2. What is your reason for interest in OpenSPARC?
      General interest - 54%
      Education - 31%
      Product development - 8%
      Research - 8%
3. Have you downloaded any of the Cool Tools?
      No - 67%
      Yes - 33%
4. Which Cool Tools are you interested in?
      Developer (Sun Studio 11, GCC for SPARC Systems) - 69%
      Deployment (coolstack, consolidation tool, cooltst) - 15%
      Performance tuning (ats/bit/spot) - 15%
5. Are you interested in adopting course work for OpenSPARC and Cool Tools?
      Yes - 69%
      No - 39%
6. Please rate this Expert Exchange event. Specifically what did you think of the chat content?
      Above average - 46%
      Exceptional - 38%
      Average - 15%
      Below average - 0%
      Poor - 0%
7. Please rate this Expert Exchange event. Specifically what did you think of the tool?
      Exceptional - 38%
      Above Average - 38%
      Average - 23%
      Below Average - 0%
      Poor - 0%
8. After participating in today's Expert Exchange, are you more or less inclined to consider Sun as a vendor?
      More Inclined - 77%
      No change - 15%
      Less Inclined - 8%
9. How often do you talk to your Sun sales representative or Sun partner?
      Do not have a relationship - 31%
      Infrequently - once per year - 31%
      Occasionally - once every 3-6 months- 23%
      Frequently - once per month - 15%
10. Would you recommend Sun for purchase of the products and solutions discussed in this Expert Exchange?
       Yes - 100%
       No - 0%

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