Electric Cloud is a startup focused on software build infrastructure. We are trying to determine whether the Jam market is large enough for us to support Jam in our product line.

Our first product is a distributed version of Make that uses clusters of inexpensive rack-mounted servers to speed up builds by 10-20x. Our goal is to be plug-compatible with our customers' existing build tools. Currently, we support GNU make, SysV make and Microsoft NMAKE.

We're trying to prioritize the next "flavors" of build tools we want to support. One of the candidates is Jam, but we don't have a good feel for how many people are using it for large software projects. We're trying to determine if the Jam market opportunity justifies the engineering investment and on-going support.

If you have a Jam-based project that takes over three hours to build sequentially (without the -j switch), would you please email me with the following information:

o How long does it take to build your Jam project(s) sequentially (without -j)? If you only do -j parallel builds, then how long does the build take, and how many jobs are you running at the same time?

o What other build tools does your company use besides Jam? {GNU Make? ANT?}

o What are the Operating Systems your engineers primarily develop on?

o What are the Operating Systems your product supports?

Your answers will be kept strictly confidential. You will not receive any marketing spam or sales calls. I would be happy to send a summary of the results (no names) to the jamming list, if people would find it interesting.

Thanks in advance for your help.