Published below is a list of the 25 winners, who will receive a copy of 'Options: Classic Approaches to Pricing and Modelling', worth £80. We would like to thank everyone who took part in our survey and provided us with useful feedback about the site, and congratulations to the lucky winners. We will continue to run a survey on the site with a prize, because we have found your feedback very helpful.

The 25 Winners:
HOH, Portfolio Manager at Norges Bank Kapitalforvaltning
GF, Business Analyst at The Basslink Project, Hydro Tasmania
NT, Head of Distribution Strategy at the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange
DS, Manager of Enterprise Risk Services at Deloitte & Touche LLP
SG, Director of Operations at Allegiance Capital, Inc.
KT, Research Engineer at France Telecom R&D
NC, Business Analyst at BNP Paribas
PK, Portfolio Analyst at OKO Bank
JC, Director of Merrill Lynch
RR, Risk Analyst at The World Bank
JC, Analyst at The BG Group
ML, Researcher at CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research
LC, Financial Engineer at Boshi Fund Management Co., Ltd
AK, Senior Software Engineer at Algorithmics, Inc.
BK, Vice President Risk/Finance at Commerzbank
JB, Economist at De Nederlandsche Bank
JP, Vice President of a Commercial/investment bank
DP, Head Financial Engineering Department at The Leumi Group
NF, Corporate Sales at Borland Software Corporation
SB, European Marketing Manager at Thomson Financial
BW, Risk Analyst at Fortis Bank
CY, Analyst at The London School of Economics
GA, Derivatives Trader at Caixa Catalunya
RF, Vice President of Engineering at HSB Group, Inc.
MK, Vice President of a brokerage firm

Survey results
Our visitors come from a broad base of company types, including commercial and investment banks, fund managers, accountancy firms, insurers, consultants, technology companies, brokers, exchanges, and government/public bodies. The current sample of 124 survey respondents has a collective budget of £126,200,000, at an average of over one million pounds per respondent. Our users are very enthusiastic about the changes and additions we have made, with 77% of respondents finding the site very useful or extremely useful. They will be using the site regularly: 61% of respondents said they will be visiting 10 or more times each year. The respondents' reasons for using the site were for a software review (31%), to keep track with new market coverage (28%), to match more sophisticated software to a hardware upgrade (20%), for a regulatory/compliance upgrade (14%), and for post merger/acquisition needs (7%).

Some user comments are listed below:

• "Much better than a printed guide…"
(Portfolio manager working for a public body)

• "Good to see all the software companies in the one place to save time and hassle in searching for all the technology options."
(Business Analyst working in government)

• "The speed of your site is second to none."
(Corporate Sales from a software/technology company)

• "The search engine is quite easy to use and the reports convenient to interpret. The site is well developed."
(Faculty Research Associate at a consultancy)

• "Very useful, powerful and user-friendly."
(Manager of a consultancy)

• "From my point of view, this site is very well constructed."
(Professor of Economics at an academic institution)

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