Re: Paid research study for data query product users

From: Jason Dennis <jmdennis_at_mindspring.com>
Date: 1997/08/22
Message-ID: <MPG.e6826cf81e15039896d7@news.mindspring.com>#1/1

In article <01bcaf5c$a2f74f60$341993cf_at_cludwigsn2>,

cludwigsen_at_worldnet.att.net says...

> Chris Thurrott <cthurrott_at_air-ne.org> wrote in article
> <33FB1ED5.319890FC_at_air-ne.org>...
> >
> > We are looking for individuals who have at least 1 year of experience
> > working with data query products, such as Microsoft Access, BrioQuery,
> > Oracle Express, Essbase, Crystal Reports, etc., to share their opinions
> > and feedback during a product evaluation session.
> >
> > Note: System administrators, database administrators, programmers, and
> > other information systems professionals need not respond.
>
> Get real! The folks you exclude are (a) the bulk of who is in this news
> group, (b) the people who develop such in-depth understanding of the
> products you specified so they can maximize their value to the business,
> and (c) the people who teach the people you want to interview about these
> products.
>
> It sounds like you want a bunch of people who know very LITTLE about these
> products to say nice things about them for marketing hype!
>
> once again, get real!

I find it interesting the amount of hostility the original post garnered. A relatively small percentage of the actual USERS of these products are professionals. Why get upset that they are excluding YOU? Whenever I get people to debug my databases, I try to get at least a few ordinary users to help because they manage to do the stupidest, most unthinkable, moronic things with my DBs that I or any other professional wouldn't even think of.

Perhaps it is all for "marketing hype," but I would personally like to see the results of what ordinary mortals think of these programs. And while the "bulk" of these newsgroups' readers (I say 'these' because you managed to cross-post big time - as I am now doing) are indeed very proficient with DBs, surely you must admit that many of the posters are beginners at best.

-- 
Regards,

Jason M. Dennis
jmdennis_at_mindspring.com
Viperwerks Homepage: http://www.mindspring.com/~viperwerks

Received on Fri Aug 22 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT