I'm doing a research survey on open source data warehouse and BI adoption that takes about 5 minutes to fill out.There's an almost complete lack of data specific to the business intelligence and data warehouse market - all the open source studies I read are generic and at best they extrapolate what's happening based on the general IT market. I want to change that.

If you have evaluated open source tools in any area of the business intelligence stack - databases, ETL tools, reporting, visualization - please consider filling out the survey whether it passed your evaluation or not, so we can begin to understand where and how people are using open source. It's as important to understand what's wrong with open source tools as what's right.

The results of this research will be summarized in a keynote at the MySQL Conference on April 23 but we'll be extending it throughout this year.

This first survey we're running is about adoption so we can answer some basic questions:
What industries, departments or functional areas are using open source?
What countries are leading the adoption?
What software categories are being used: reporting, OLAP, ETL, data mining, databases?
Why are people choosing or deciding against open source in this segment of the market?

Thanks also to Infobright (open source columnar database) and JasperSoft (open source BI stack) who are kind enough to donate a TomTom One XL portable GPS for a prize drawing after the survey is done. If you complete the survey and provide your information, you'll be entered to win. We'll do the drawing and announce the name at the MySQL conference.

Whether your open source evaluation led you to think of it as the holy grail or the devil's chalice, please take 5 minutes to fill out the survey.