Competed the survey , I think I understand why some might feel issues with the financial questions but it’s a fair point to understand on how there can be avenues to maximize savings for one services if you can get automation rolled in with it . All the best with the survey

On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 2:37 AM Chris Grundemann <cgrundemann@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 2:30 PM Tom Beecher <beecher@beecher.cc> wrote:
Having the opt out is nice, but if I am being completely honest, it gives me pause as to what the intent of this survey is in the first place.

I perhaps may be hyper cynical, but those feel like a straight line towards the standard salesperson line of "look at what you are spending now on FOO , you could save X if you used BAR".

Fair play, Tom. All I can say is that after 20 years of working on, in, and around the Internet, I'm sure as hell not going to ruin my reputation now.

The intent of the survey is exactly as I stated: To report network automation trends back to the community.

And whether we engineers like it or not, one of the best ways to measure trends is in the relative amount of money organizations spend on them...

HTH,
~Chris

On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 4:12 PM Chris Grundemann <cgrundemann@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 12:15 PM Tom Beecher <beecher@beecher.cc> wrote:

I was also off put by some of the financial questions in there.

The financial questions (2 of them) both allow opt-out if that is a sticking point. They are also both as vague as possible (large ranges, not exact figures) while still providing something to baseline against.