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Commerical Support

Momentum is building to offer commercial support for
CL-HTTP and related Web technology. If your organization
is already using this technology or is considering adopting
this technology, you help speed the delivery of support by
answering the following questions as completely and clearly
as possible.

The questions below are intended to calibrate current needs
and prepare for future requirements.

Please send your answers to:

	<mailto:cl-http-support@wilson.ai.mit.edu>

Do not send them to me and do not send them to the mailing list.


	1 Who is the contact at your organization?

		o Name?
		o Postal Address?
		o Telphone? FAX?
		o Email?
		o Kind of Organization (company, government, non-profit, educational)?
		o Kind of activity (product development, pure research, 
				scientific/educational infrastructure)

	2 What is your application area?

		o Domain?
		o Web technology required?
		o Level of complexity (basic, moderate, complex)
		o Rate of evolution (low, moderate, high)
		o Man/years of investment? Yearly rate?

	3 What kind of support do you require?

		o Routine maintenance?
		o Routine upgrades tracking major standards?
		o Cryptography for electronic commerce or security?
		o Special enhancements?
		o Training for your programmers?
		o Application development?
		o Consulting Services (occasional, periodic, frequent, firefighting)?

	4 How much do you expect to spend on support in the current calendar year?

	5 How important is commcercial support for your activity? (marginal, moderate, critical)

	6 How much experience in years do you have with: 

		o Lisp?
		o Web?
		o Mobile code?
		o CL-HTTP?
		o Web Walking?

	6 What parts of CL-HTTP or related technologies are most important for you?

	7 What new components would be most important for you in the coming year?

	8 How important is leading-edge technology for your application?

	10 What are (will be) your development and delivery operating systems?

		o UNIX?
		o Windows 95?
		o Windows NT?
		o Lisp Machine?
		o Macintosh?
		o Other?

	11 Which Lisp(s) do you use?

		o Allegro Common Lisp?
		o LispWorks?
		o Lucid?
		o Macintosh Common Lisp?
		o Symbolics Genera?

	12 What questions omitted here are important for your activity?
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