SharePoint Implementation Survey

A big thank you to the 182 people that responded to the Survey! It has been a real eye opener for me in terms of the amount of approaches that are available out there!
Here's summary:

• So many not on 64bit SharePoint Dev environment yet!
• Most are working off laptops with their environments
• Most are running their environment in a Virtual Machine
  • Too many not running VM off a separate physical HDD!
  • Not enough running Server 2008 and SQL 2008
• WSPBuilder rules over VSeWSS and STSDev by a long shot!
• SharePoint Manager 2007, U2U Caml Builder, RedGate Reflector, MS Dispose Checker, Firebug, IE Dev Toolbar are in most toolboxes

When I get more time, I'll read through the manual entries and analyse it in more detail. Check out the rest below!

So no surprises there that most people classed themselves as the dog of all trades
This figure was pretty unbelievable that there is such a evenish keel here on this. I need to do some deeper analysis to work out how these two subsets of people answered the following questions.
So this was expected, that 12% didn't maintain their host machines.

I was glad not to be the only one whose primary host machine was a laptop. I also appreciate that some people have more than one machine e.g. a laptop for the road and a workstation in their office. For the purposes of the rest of the survey I wanted to focus on the PRIMARY one.

This correlates with the previous question in terms of a Server being 28.3% and it being dedicated too.
So some are lucky enough to have 4Ghz + wow!
Some clearly have waaaay too much $$$!
Happy to be in the majority here...but can see those Lenovos stacking up with 8Gb RAM! Jealous!
OK, this is the scary one! GUYS! You won't get 4Gb of RAM regardless of 4GB physical RAM unless you are 64-bit!
Clearly some people are very lucky...and even have very nice Team Leaders or anal Admins
Now that is not what I expected! I guess VPC is free Beta on Win 7 looks good.

WOW PEOPLE SharePoint 2010 will be 64-bit only...you need to start getting used to 64-bit development environments!
No surprises there really
1GB RAM...that's like pulling teeth!

Was surprised at such big Gb size for VMs. I'm assuming there's a lot of guys pulling down Production content into Development?

Good lads! Although 30.3%% is stil a lot of people who clearly haven't seen the difference between a separate drive!
OK, I think some read this wrong...why would you have Vista in your Guest? And another highlihgt that there clearly hasn't been a big uptake of Windows Server 2008 yet....but PEOPLE...SharePoint 2010 will ONLY SUPPORT 2008!
 Easiest way to transfer stuff I guess.

 Good to see 25.4% putting it on own DC

Sharings caring

15% with more than 5, but not one per client. That's an interesting mix...would like to follow up with more on this.

 I must admit I have a WSS VM so that I can ensure it's not sneaking any MOSS stuff

 Feb CU is safest...and this was before the SP2 issue announced by Microsoft. 
WOW, I expected more on SQL 2008...remember that SharePoint 2010 will only support this!
 Good to see a balance of Team Suite...would like to know what functionality is leveraged here.

Poor SPD, such a mixed bag and under used tool

 This has to be the most amazing stat of all 55.6% of developer share!
 It shocks me to see that so many don't leverage the tools out there for productivity.

Reflector is clearly a big part of the Developer toolkit and good to see that SP Dispose Checker getting some take up alongside SharePoint Manager 2007 - Carsten Keutmann needs a medal for that and WSPBuilder!

 I expected more use of this.
 

Guys, PowerShell is going to save you heaps of time and in SharePoint 2010 it's going to be leveraged further...time to get onboard!
 
 
 Good to see people levarging Firebug and IE Developer Toolbar.
 
 Tell me you aren't cutting the BDC stuff by hand? or is everyone just avoiding it?!?
 The U2U guys dominate in this space clearly!
 As expected, unit testing is still not on the radar for SharePoint Development.
 

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