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We are looking for system administrators, hardware engineers, and IT
staff/management who are responsible for researching and recommending
servers or storage systems - from any vendor - for a Sun research
study next week. Please feel free to forward this message to others
who might be interested. You must be in the US or Canada to
participate. Sun employees and contractors are not eligible.

Tuesday and Wednesday, May 6 & 7:
These sessions will last 1 hour and participants will receive $75 for
their feedback. The study will be conducted remotely via web-meeting.

If you are interested, please reply and let me know:

1. Your current job/role: tell us a bit about what you do and where
you work. We are particularly interested in the size of the
organization (if consulting, please tell us the size of your client
organization as well).

2. Your experience with Sun products (we would like about 1/2 the
participants to be unfamiliar with Sun products). Please pick one of
the following:

A Knowledgeable about Sun products; have helped to spec and
purchase Sun products; very familiar with Sun technology

B Somewhat knowledgeable about Sun products; have researched Sun
products and have a fairly good understanding of Sun technology; may
have helped spec and purchase a Sun product

C Just getting started with Sun and its products; have started
some research and would like to learn more.

D Not at all familiar with Sun products or technology.

3. Whether you work primarily with servers or storage systems.

4. Your time zone and the operating system you will use during the
study.

5. A phone number where you can be reached for scheduling.

Please provide the information requested above rather than attaching
your resume.

Thank you,
Lyn Bain
Lynda.Bain@sun.com

lynbain@gmail.com wrote:
> We are looking for system administrators, hardware engineers, and IT
> staff/management who are responsible for researching and recommending
> servers or storage systems - from any vendor - for a Sun research
> study next week. Please feel free to forward this message to others
> who might be interested. You must be in the US or Canada to
> participate. Sun employees and contractors are not eligible.
>
> Tuesday and Wednesday, May 6 & 7:
> These sessions will last 1 hour and participants will receive $75 for
> their feedback. The study will be conducted remotely via web-meeting.
>
> If you are interested, please reply and let me know:
>
> 1. Your current job/role: tell us a bit about what you do and where
> you work. We are particularly interested in the size of the
> organization (if consulting, please tell us the size of your client
> organization as well).
>
> 2. Your experience with Sun products (we would like about 1/2 the
> participants to be unfamiliar with Sun products). Please pick one of
> the following:
>
> A Knowledgeable about Sun products; have helped to spec and
> purchase Sun products; very familiar with Sun technology
>
> B Somewhat knowledgeable about Sun products; have researched Sun
> products and have a fairly good understanding of Sun technology; may
> have helped spec and purchase a Sun product
>
> C Just getting started with Sun and its products; have started
> some research and would like to learn more.
>
> D Not at all familiar with Sun products or technology.
>
> 3. Whether you work primarily with servers or storage systems.
>
> 4. Your time zone and the operating system you will use during the
> study.
>
> 5. A phone number where you can be reached for scheduling.
>
> Please provide the information requested above rather than attaching
> your resume.
>
> Thank you,
> Lyn Bain
> Lynda.Bain@sun.com


Lynda

you have put the wrong date. It should be April the 1st.

We all believe that we will be paid $75 by Sun, and sun make this offer
not from their web pages, or a Sun IP address, but post via Google
Groups from an IP address of 71.211.240.46 which resolves to

Top Level Domain: "qwest.net"
Country IP Address: UNITED STATES

quest.net is a Broadband Internet/Dial-Up

On Thu, 01 May 2008 04:44:35 +0100, Dave wrote:
> Lynda
>
> you have put the wrong date. It should be April the 1st.
>
> We all believe that we will be paid $75 by Sun, and sun make this offer
> not from their web pages, or a Sun IP address, but post via Google
> Groups from an IP address of 71.211.240.46 which resolves to
>
> Top Level Domain: "qwest.net"
> Country IP Address: UNITED STATES
>
> quest.net is a Broadband Internet/Dial-Up

Dave -
Having met Lyn in person, and having participated in a number of her
research opportunities, and having been paid properly and adequately for
my time in each and every case, I can assure you (and anyone else who
doesn't believe this is a legitimate opportunity) that everything here is
completely on the up-and-up. Lyn was not a Sun employee last I knew, but
that appears to have changed, based on her email address. And Qwest is
spelled with a "w", not a "u".

Cheers,
James Noyes

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, James Noyes wrote:

> Dave -
> Having met Lyn in person, and having participated in a number of her
> research opportunities, and having been paid properly and adequately for
> my time in each and every case, I can assure you (and anyone else who
> doesn't believe this is a legitimate opportunity) that everything here is
> completely on the up-and-up. Lyn was not a Sun employee last I knew, but

+1 (though I've never met Lyn in person).

--
Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA

CEO,
My Online Home Inventory

URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich
http://www.linkedin.com/in/richteer
http://www.myonlinehomeinventory.com

Rich Teer wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, James Noyes wrote:
>
>> Dave -
>> Having met Lyn in person, and having participated in a number of her
>> research opportunities, and having been paid properly and adequately for
>> my time in each and every case, I can assure you (and anyone else who
>> doesn't believe this is a legitimate opportunity) that everything here is
>> completely on the up-and-up. Lyn was not a Sun employee last I knew, but
>
> +1 (though I've never met Lyn in person).
>
I'm sorry to Lyn in this case.

But she would be better posting this sort of thing from a Sun email
address with a Sun IP address, as it looks rather suspicious.

On Fri, 2 May 2008, Dave wrote:

> But she would be better posting this sort of thing from a Sun email address
> with a Sun IP address, as it looks rather suspicious.

Lyn doesn't work for Sun, but I agree that an email from her
more usual corporate address would be less prone to suspicion.

--
Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA

CEO,
My Online Home Inventory

URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich
http://www.linkedin.com/in/richteer
http://www.myonlinehomeinventory.com

On May 2, 8:24 am, Rich Teer <rich.t...@rite-group.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2 May 2008, Dave wrote:
> > But she would be better posting this sort of thing from a Sun email address
> > with a Sun IP address, as it looks rather suspicious.
>
> Lyn doesn't work for Sun, but I agree that an email from her
> more usual corporate address would be less prone to suspicion.
>
> --
> Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA
>
> CEO,
> My Online Home Inventory
>
> URLs:http://www.rite-group.com/rich
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/richteer
> http://www.myonlinehomeinventory.com

Thanks, Rich and James. I'm really at a loss. I am a consultant hired
by Sun to get objective feedback on things that they are working
on. As a consultant for them, I have a Sun email address. When I
posted from my Chili Interactive address (my company), I got
criticized for not posting from a Sun address. When I include my Sun
email address, people think I should post from my Chili address. I'm
giving you lots of choices, all of them lead to me :-) Most people who
I work with at Sun work from home so checking the IP address isn't
always going to be helpful.

Honestly, participating in these interviews is a great opportunity to
help Sun get things right. They truly want your input and they really
do take it into account. I don't know exactly how everyone would like
me to write things or the address they want me to write from, but I
hope that hearing from people on these lists who have participated in
the usability tests helps you see that this is legit. We do interviews
with over 300 Sun customers every year and we read every comment on
every survey submitted on the Sun web site to summarize the feedback.
If you want to give feedback to Sun, you have the opportunity by
taking advantage of one of these offers.

My company is Chili Interactive, based in Boulder, CO. We work with
everyone from Internet startups like Me.dium to the big guys like Sun,
Qwest, and Qualcomm on all aspects of user experience design and
usability research.

Lyn Bain