Summary: Last month we interviewed Brad Wardell about his plans to produce and market a Stardock branded version of the OS/2 client, we then asked you to give us your thoughts about the plan. Here's the results.

For last month's survey we received 591 valid votes. A vote was considered valid if it contained an e-mail address, answered all questions and was not a duplicate.

Would Stardock be effective at marketing a new OS/2 based client?

19.5% of the respondants had an enthusiastic "Yes, they'd rock!" response to this question while the remaining majority was more conservative, opining that they'd either do a good job or merely be adequate. Very few held a pessimistic view of no impact or collossal faliure.

Category	Count	Percentage
Yes, they'd rock!	115	19.5%
They'd do a good job	302	51.1%
They'd be adequate	114	19.3%
They'd have no impact	38	6.4%
They'd fail miserably	13	2.2%
Oh God, please say it ain't so?	8	1.4%
TOTAL	591	99.9%

Would you purchase a Stardock branded version of OS/2?

If all of our voters kept their word, we think dollar signs would be in Stardock's future. The overwhelming majority (81.4%) were ready to buy, with the highest count comfortable to do so the instant it was available.

Category	Count	Percentage
Yes, in a heartbeat	246	41.6%
Very likely	235	39.8%
I might, but I'm not sure	82	13.9%
I doubt it	20	3.4%
No chance in hell	7	1.2%
TOTAL	591	99.9%

If not Stardock, who would be better?

And following up with that positive attitude, it was still only a slim majority who chose to express who else they thought could do better than Stardock at the same job. While not all of the companies we listed are likely to have the same desire, wishful thinking is still fun to indulge in.

Category	Count	Percentage
Nobody else, Stardock is the one	255	43.1%
IBM	104	17.6%
Lotus Development	18	3.0%
Star Division	22	3.7%
Sundial Systems	7	1.2%
A non-profit, user-run organization	49	8.3%
Shifty Eddie, the used car salesman	5	0.8%
Microsoft	70	11.8%
Other	60	10.2%
TOTAL	591	99.7%

Other Suggestions

We left the survey open for readers to express their own ideas about who could do better, ideas outside of the limited list we already gave. The responses we got was too large to list here, but some of the more amusing suggestions were:

• "Anyone but IBM" (5 votes)
• "Me" (4 votes)
• The Pope
• Budweiser

Other, more serious suggestions ran along the lines of:

• Netscape (3 votes)
• Red Hat (2 votes)
• GNU Release
• Be, Inc.
• AT&T
• An association of OS/2 supporters like VOICE and POSSI
• The OS/2 Netlabs