Web-based survey software

[Randy Anderson]

Karen,

As you have pointed out you have a number of choices for doing a survey
but based on your system description you are really narrowed down to
two.

1. Hire a service to do this. For a survey of 20 questions and 500
respondences the cost would be about $600. This would be hosted at
another site and linked to yours.

2. Since you have a virtual web server I assume that your server is
remote at your ISP. If so then I recommend you us a tool like Decisive.
It is based on email so you can email your surveys or put them on the
web and the response are emailed back to you.

The company I work for as developed a very advanced web based survey
tool that has been used by the likes of Microsoft and Campbell's Soups.
It is build on a relational databases like SQL Server or Oracle so you
need more control over your web site. We do offer the service if you are
interested.  Send an email to info at stormcloud.com for a formal quote.

Randy Anderson
rmanders at sprynet.com

Karen G. Schneider wrote:
> 
> I've seen a good couple dozen web-based survey software packages, including
> several that claim to write the cgi for you and help present the data
> (definitely less work for Mother, if they function as advertised!).  A
> search in Yahoo, for example, yields a healthy 20+ links in "Surveys and
> Polling."  Prices range from modest to breathtaking, though most products
> claim to be uniformly "full-featured."
> 
> For someone who has end-user Unix experience, a virtual webserver with a
> fair amount of CGI access, and somewhat cramped time constraints, can
> anyone who has gone this route recommend a good tool?  I'm looking at a
> survey with approximately 20 questions (some of which have numerous
> check-all-that-apply selections), and am anticipating between 300 and 750
> completed surveys.
> 
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