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[Ed's Comment: Not wishing to ignite yet another flame war regarding the adoption of systemd, I hesitated before publishing this story. However, although it is not an formal survey, it might still reflect the views of the greater linux user community rather than those who frequent this particular site. There is no need to restate the arguments seen over the last few weeks - they are well known and understood - but the survey might have a point.]
http://q5sys.sh has recenlty conducted a survey finding many Linux users may be in favour of systemd:
First off lets keep one thing in mind, this was not a professional survey. As such the results need to be taken as nothing more than the opinions of the 4755 individuals who responded. While the survey responses show that 47% of the respondents are in favor of systemd, that does not mean that 47% of the overall linux community is in favor of systemd. The actual value may be higher or lower. This is simply a small capture of our overall community.
Although the author questions the results could this be an indication that we're really seeing a vocal minority who don't want systemd while the silent majority either do or simply don't care? Poll results and the original blog post.
(Score: 2) by choose another one on Friday November 21 2014, @02:56PM
Voting by number or compute power of servers might not get the answer you want either - consider the RedHat cloud admins, how many servers do they manage ? They are in favour (see Atomic, OpenShift, GearD - all using systemd as one of the pieces). Also, Amazon EC2, widely believed to be running RHEL as host...
My guess is that you would see a lot of smaller / discrete / on-premise server admins against, and then switching to in-favour for the really big stuff, but that is just a guess. There are definitely some "big" server admins in favour, as above.