Other than snubbing Servers Alive (the best monitoring product hands down), here are my "top 10" things that seemed a little weird about the survey:
10: Backup Exec is shown as Veritas, when it is now Symantec. 9: Under UPS's - APC isn't included. Aren't they the biggest UPS manufacturer in the world? 8: Lotus Notes is not listed under E-mail servers. 7: At least 3 categories only have ONE candidate. Glad to see this isn't biased! I wonder who will win... 6: Blades, servers somehow forgot about big blue. We don't use IBM here, but I know that these servers are everywhere. 5: Laptops and Tablets didn't include Toshiba. I'm not sure if they are the biggest vendor in this space but they have to be in the top 3. 4: Under PDA's, Blackberry isn't listed - when they are the best game in town for integration into networks (and we tested several). 3: HP is not shown under Switches. Very strange as I've seen them everywhere on networks I'd worked on, and we have standardized on them including a L3 switch at our backbone. 2: Symantec is not listed under antivirus - they must be at least as big as every other vendor combined in that area! 1: Under Desktops, the ONLY vendor listed is Gateway! This one floored me as you would think they would at least include HP, IBM and Dell! Honorable mentions: D-link not shown as a wireless vendor (but Linksys was) Startech not shown as a KVM vendor Desktop firewall - no ZoneAlarm Pro Number of backup questions seemed unusually large Winzip not listed in file compression tools I'd like to say I'm glad I wasted half a day taking that clearly biased and somewhat ridiculous survey. Yep... I'd like to say that... -----Original Message----- From: Dirk Bulinckx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: April 10, 2005 12:29 AM To: salive@woodstone.nu Subject: RE: [SA-list] Windws IT Pro Reader's Choice Awards and Servers Alive Apparently I forgot the link: http://www.windowsitpro.com/readerschoice/ Dirk. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Stone Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 4:58 AM To: salive@woodstone.nu Subject: RE: [SA-list] Windws IT Pro Reader's Choice Awards and Servers Alive Last year it was a strange category, this year SA isn't even included. What does it take to get a little respect from them? -Kevin -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dirk Bulinckx Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 1:17 PM To: salive@woodstone.nu Subject: [SA-list] Windws IT Pro Reader's Choice Awards and Servers Alive Windows IT Pro Magazine started their 2005 Readers' Choice awards voting and it continues through May 2nd, 2005. To vote, you must have a Windows IT Pro registered user or subscriber account. Registered user accounts are free and require only a valid e-mail address. It would be great if you could vote for Servers Alive. For some "strange" reason were not within the their pre-defined list, however you can always vote for another software. I would suggest to do this :-) Category : Systems Management - Monitoring and Alerting Software Thank you. Dirk. To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive Please note that Internet email is not always private, secure or reliable. The sender accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus inadvertently transmitted with this email. Any opinion expressed in this email is solely that of the author, unless clearly indicated otherwise. This email, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or proprietary information that is intended only for use by the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. If you received this email in error, please delete the email and advise the sender of the delivery error. To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive
