Over the last couple months we have been running ads to drive people to our survey and had over 1,000 responses to the survey. The purpose of the survey is to get an idea of the type of developer who frequents the blogs and sites that are part of The Lounge. Our goal wasn't to promote the survey at all costs, but rather to focus on promoting it to the people going to our sites.

The winners of the survey have been selected and emailed, if you didn't win you will have another chance soon as we plan on doing surveys throughout the year.

We asked alot of questions so I am going to split the results across a couple of posts. This post mostly contains the marketing information but the next one will be all technology for you non marketing types. (one sneak peak result at the bottom of this post)

I almost didn't include this question since it the answer was pretty much a forgone conclusion.

I was happy to see 47% of our respondents identified themselves as Senior Developer or above, one of my selling points has always been that our audience is made up of higher level developers and decision makers.

About what I was expecting here.

I was thrilled with these numbers, over 92% of the respondents are involved in the purchasing process with over 25% in full control of the purchasing process.

I didn't know what to expect here but it seems to be fairly spread out with a full 12% of $1 million or more.

And one sneak peak at the next post, here are the results for language question:

I knew that C# would be number 1 but I am surprised it was by such a huge margin, and to think 5 years ago people were wondering if VB.NET or C# was going to be more popular.

I hope to post the next part of the results later this week, its all about technology and has some interesting results