Thanks to your participation in the user Survey 2008 we gathered valuable feedback to guide the product roadmap.
The Results
Clearly our users vouch for even greater performance and scalability. And I must say you won't be disappointed in this respect with the upcoming db4o versions!
Given the quality of the answers and specific requests we saw a trend towards more professional db4o users. This means we will keep an eye on providing advanced resources for these users but we won't forget to help beginners get started with db4o.
The documentation was, in general, perceived as very useful by the participants while there was a clear request for more and better documentation. We will do our best to improve our comprehensive reference documentation (and to make it more accessible).
Finally, there was a boost on the percentage of embedded Java users among the participants compared to last year results. That's clearly thanks to the recently released Google Android platform. Way to go (welcome Android)!
In order to get your feedback we have started 3 forum threads on the Product Developer forum:
Please participate and state your wishes and suggestions (also let us know if your use case is an embedded device, packaged software, web, caching, etc).
The Prizes
Each of the first 25 respondents to our survey get a db4o Large Mug. And here's the list of winners:
Angsuman Chakraborty
Allan Morstein
Mauro Della Chiesa
Michael Chean
James Chen
CL Dons
Simon Treloar
Eduardo Andrés Ostertag
David Cracauer
Lester Balmaceda
Patrick Clemins
Juan Gabriel Gutierrez
Paul Bates
Shin, Soo Won
cuneyt terzi
Caidongsheng
ChenYY
Adrian Gonzalez
Brian Breneman
Alexander Stephen Cameron
Marcell Manfrin
Tiago Baptista
Ashley Aitken
Brady Anderson
Davide Angelocola
Also 10 participants get the db4o book "The Definitive Guide to db4o". This is the list:
Juan Carlos Merino Arranz
Brandon Regard
Donald Wright
Alexander Stoddard
Scott Fuelberth
Marcelo Rho
Angelo Bernrdi
Jochen Riedel
Andrea Bioli
Olivier Albiez
And finally, 3 lucky participants won an awesome Samsung Blackjack *unlocked* PDA phone:
Venelin Arnaudov
Grant Slender
Michal Minicki
Each winner will be contacted personally to arrange the details. Congratulations and...
Thanks a lot for your support!
German Viscuso
db4o community manager
UPDATE: See a review of ICOODB here:
http://best-practice-software-engineering.blogspot.com/2008/04/object-database-conference-review.html