Guild Companies' iSeries Programmer Survey				April 2004
1. If someone put a gun to your head and told you to start coding an ERP system right now, which language would you use?
RPG (Non-ILE)	14.1%	27
ILE RPG	65.6%	126
COBOL (any)	8.9%	17
Java	5.2%	10
C/C++	1.0%	2
.NET (C#, Other CLR)	0.5%	1
Fortran	0.0%	0
Other	4.7%	9
		192
2. Are you an RPG programmer? (Meaning, have you actually used RPG in production for more than two years.)
Yes	87.5%	168
No	12.5%	24
		192
3. Are you a Java programmer? (Meaning, have you actually used Java in production for more than two years.)
Yes	6.3%	12
No	93.8%	180
		192
4. Approximately what percentage of your iSeries applications (in terms of lines of code) are written in the following languages?
	None	1%-20%	21%-40%	41%-60%	61%-80%	81%-100%		None	1%-20%	21%-40%	41%-60%	61%-80%	81%-100%
RPG (Non-ILE)	13.5%	20.3%	17.2%	12.0%	19.8%	17.2%		26	39	33	23	38	33
ILE RPG	11.5%	34.4%	14.6%	13.5%	11.5%	14.6%		22	66	28	26	22	28
COBOL (any)	75.0%	12.0%	2.6%	2.6%	1.6%	6.3%		144	23	5	5	3	12
Java	66.1%	30.2%	1.0%	1.6%	0.5%	0.5%		127	58	2	3	1	1
C/C++	91.1%	8.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%		175	17	0	0	0	0
.NET (C#, Other CLR)	93.2%	6.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%		179	12	1	0	0	0
Other	69.8%	26.6%	1.6%	0.5%	1.0%	0.5%		134	51	3	1	2	1
5. Approximately what percentage of your company's total applications (again in terms of lines of code) are written in the following languages?
(Include OS/400 and all other servers in your shop)
	None	1%-20%	21%-40%	41%-60%	61%-80%	81%-100%		None	1%-20%	21%-40%	41%-60%	61%-80%	81%-100%
RPG (Non-ILE)	13.5%	23.4%	16.1%	12.5%	19.8%	14.6%		26	45	31	24	38	28
ILE RPG	13.5%	35.9%	18.8%	12.5%	8.9%	10.4%		26	69	36	24	17	20
COBOL (any)	72.9%	13.0%	3.6%	2.6%	2.1%	5.7%		140	25	7	5	4	11
Java	55.2%	39.6%	2.1%	2.1%	0.5%	0.5%		106	76	4	4	1	1
C/C++	76.6%	19.8%	2.6%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%		147	38	5	1	1	0
.NET (C#, Other CLR)	80.2%	18.8%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%		154	36	1	1	0	0
Other	51.3%	40.9%	3.6%	1.6%	2.1%	0.5%		99	79	7	3	4	1
6. Five years from now, what will the distribution of your company's application code look like across all platforms?
	None	1%-20%	21%-40%	41%-60%	61%-80%	81%-100%		None	1%-20%	21%-40%	41%-60%	61%-80%	81%-100%
RPG (Non-ILE)	33.3%	33.9%	12.5%	12.0%	3.1%	5.2%		64	65	24	23	6	10
ILE RPG	17.2%	16.7%	18.8%	16.7%	18.2%	12.5%		33	32	36	32	35	24
COBOL (any)	78.6%	9.4%	2.6%	5.2%	2.1%	2.1%		151	18	5	10	4	4
Java	34.4%	37.5%	17.7%	6.3%	3.1%	1.0%		66	72	34	12	6	2
C/C++	75.1%	18.7%	3.6%	1.0%	1.0%	0.5%		145	36	7	2	2	1
.NET (C#, Other CLR)	67.2%	21.4%	7.3%	2.1%	1.6%	0.5%		129	41	14	4	3	1
Other	55.2%	29.2%	6.3%	3.6%	2.6%	3.1%		106	56	12	7	5	6
7. Assuming money and time were no object, which language(s) would you like to learn? (More than one choice is permitted.)
RPG (Non-ILE)	3.1%	6
ILE RPG	23.4%	45
COBOL (any)	3.1%	6
Java	78.1%	150
C/C++	33.3%	64
.NET (C#, Other CLR)	44.3%	85
Fortran	1.6%	3
Other	18.8%	36
		192	Total Respondents
		395	Total answers		2.06	Average New Languages Desired