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Between 56% and 60% of Consultants interviewed answered (some) detailed questions about his/her participation on PSDN forums. For a breakdown of Consultants participating in this section of the Progress Consultants survey, refer to Participating Consultants.

As results show, there are a few forums where people visit consistently. Click on the image below to load the popup with the chart details.

Of the responses, these are the most interesting remarks about PSDN:

• Fewer people watch PSDN than PEG. There’s less noise.
• I see everything; I ignore lots of it.
• Posting on PSDN would contribute to my visibility, but they’ve run out of interesting topics—haven’t been there in over a year. Do visit psdn.com monthly though.
• I actively recommend PSDN to my customer base (more than just forums), so my customers go there. For European clients, it’s the best place for visibility.
• I can’t answer your questions about the site and forums because I go so rarely. I can’t distinguish between them.
• I go to psdn.com now and again. Very rarely visit forum. Like PEG much better.
• I go to psdn.com frequently. I go to the forum infrequently. Non-English speakers have a barrier about using these resources. An outline in languages other than English would be helpful. I have seen some Spanish sites. Of course Microsoft has lots of Italian and German knowledge base and newsletters. There are blogs in Italian and German for C#, java, and hardware—but not Progress. Pity.

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