GCG wrote:
> Is anyone out there running multiple applications or databases on
> single UNIX systems? Is anyone using UNIX workload management and
> partitioning features to cut admin load, hit SLAs, reduce footprints,
> and, hopefully, cut costs? Our company, Gabriel Consulting Group, is
> running a survey to see if customers in the real world (i.e. you folks)
> are actually using these features or if the vendors are simply
> whistling in the dark. We would greatly appreciate your participation
> in our research project. To respond to our survey, please cut and paste
> this entire message into an email and send it (after marking your
> choices, of course) to survey1@gabrielconsultinggroup.com. That address
> again is: survey1@gabrielconsultinggroup.com
>
> If you give us your name and mailing address, we will send you a small,
> but shabby, token of our appreciation to thank you for giving us your
> opinions. We may wish to contact some of you for short follow-up phone
> interviews; these people will receive slightly better gifts to
> compensate them for their time. Please remember to keep you
> expectations low in order to avoid disappointment. We will hold all
> responses, email addresses, etc., strictly confidential and will under
> no circumstances disclose any identifying information to third parties.
> We hate spam just as much as you do. Now, on to the survey...
>
> 1. Please tell us which server families you predominately work with
> (rank from 1=most closely to 4=less closely)
>
> IBM AIX ________
> Sun Solaris ________
> HP, HP-UX ________
> HP, Tru64 ________
> Other ___________
>
> 2. How big is your entire organization? (number of total employees)
>
> Under 500 ________
> 500 to 1,500 ________
> 1,500 to 5,000 ________
> 5,000 + ____________
>
> 3. In your organization, how many UNIX servers do you oversee or have
> some level of detailed knowledge about?
>
> Under 10 _________
> 10 - 20 _________
> 20 - 50 _________
> 50 - 100 ________
> 100 + ___________
>
> 4. Of the UNIX servers you have knowledge of, how many are running more
> than one application or database on a single O/S instance or in
> multiple O/S instances on a single multi-processor SMP server?
>
> ________ None, virtually all of our UNIX systems run single
> applications only
>
> ________ Very few (10% or less)
>
> ________ Half of our UNIX servers are running multiple applications
>
> ________ More than half of our UNIX servers are running multiple
> applications
>
> Time to branch! If you answered "None" or "Very few" to
> question #4 above, move right on to question #5 below. If you answered
> "Half" or "More than half" to question #4 above, then proceed
> directly to the PARTING COMMENTS section below.
>
> 5. Since you're still with us at question #5, you're organization
> does not run multiple UNIX applications on single systems, right? UNIX
> vendors have been talking a lot about this capability, and the benefits
> if can provide to customers, for the last couple of years. In the next
> set of questions, we would like to get a feel for why your data center
> has not adopted this new UNIX usage model. Next to each of the
> statements below, please let us know on a 1-5 scale if you agree that
> the statement explains why your organization does not run multiple
> applications on single UNIX servers...
>
> a) "Lack of knowledge and expertise, our vendors haven't supplied
> us with much info" ______ (5=strongly agree, 1=strongly disagree)
>
> b) "We think combining apps on single servers will compromise
> availability" ________ (5=strongly agree, 1=strongly disagree)
>
> c) "We don't understand how this can or will save money or
> management effort" ________ (5=strongly agree, 1=strongly disagree)
>
> d) "Our UNIX apps are running well right now, we don't want to
> change anything" ________ (5=strongly agree, 1=strongly disagree)
>
> e) "We simply don't have the cycles to make major changes right
> now" ________ (5=strongly agree, 1=strongly disagree)
>
> f) "Where's the beef? What do we get out of this stuff?"
> ________ (5=strongly agree, 1=strongly disagree)
>
> g) "UNIX operating systems/hardware are not sophisticated enough to
> run multiple apps" ________ (5=strongly agree, 1=strongly disagree)
>
> h) "There's too much political BS in our organization, everyone
> owns their own servers and will not agree to move their app onto a box
> they don't own outright or have complete use of" ________
> (5=strongly agree, 1=strongly disagree)
>
> i) "UNIX management and accounting tools are not up to the task of
> metering individual app usage or making sure service levels are
> maintained" ________ (5=strongly agree, 1=strongly disagree)
>
>
> PARTING COMMENTS:
>
> We know our simple survey won't capture everything you can tell us
> - so please give us any additional thoughts or comments you have on
> this issue. If we didn't ask a question we should have asked or asked
> a dumb question, here's where you can let us know.
> (Comments space)
>
>
>
> If you would like to receive the free (cheap, shabby) gift we mentioned
> above, please give us your name and mailing address below. The gifts
> will be sent out 3-4 weeks after the survey closes. If you would be
> willing to participate in a short follow-up phone interview, please
> include your daytime phone number. We will keep this information
> strictly confidential and not share it with any outside party.
> (Contact info space)
>
>
>
>
> Remember to email your completed survey to
>
> survey1@gabrielconsultinggroup.com.
>
> Thank you again for participating in our survey, we appreciate your
> time.
>
DUH!, geez, 20 years ago started using UNIX because more than 1 person
could run more then 1 thing... I guess they want to find out if
bloatware has destroyed UNIX like everything else!