Re: SURVEY: Software Maintenance Tools

Hi, A significant issue where I work that we've found that is directly proportional to customer satisfaction is the degree of pro-active-ness (?) that we DBA's provide. Where I work, internal corporate application programmers and data administrators hire us to manage their DB environments. We saw the need years ago for a proactive methodology to support our DB's. Thus we desgined a tool to do just that. There are many DB monitoring tools on the market, but in addition to being costly, they did not meet all of our needs. We wanted to respond to DB problems BEFORE the phone rang. We have accomplished just that with DBAmon. Example: One issue that plagued us was our ability to create an environment where we would get good, online backups consistenly on every DB every night. No tool on the market (as far as I know) measures backup age except the tool that we developed. This tool is also now available commercially. Check out http://dbamon.com Bill Border Agilent Technologies bb22@uswest.net -- Bill Border Agilent Technologies bb22@uswest.net Cool, affordable DB monitor: http://dbamon.com ridhamx@my-deja.com wrote in message <8kbcn8$pkf$1@nnrp1.deja.com>... >SURVEY ON SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE TOOL >"A Framework for Evaluation of Software Maintenance Tool" > > >Are you a programmer, analyst, designer, or manager? Have you ever >had to evaluate a software maintenance tool, or are you going to >evaluate one soon? Please visit: > >http://hockeytown.eas.asu.edu/~ridha/surveyintro.html > >I am conducting a survey of stakeholders of any software-related >organization on how they evaluate software maintenance tool for their >organization. I am looking for fairly basic information, such as what >tools you use and what kinds of things you look for. My research >is to develop a framework for evaluation of software maintenance tool. > >If you have free time, take 5-10 minutes to fill out the survey at: > >http://hockeytown.eas.asu.edu/~ridha/surveyintro.html > >Your comments, suggestions, or ideas will be appreciated. >Thanks in advance for your participation and contribution on this >research. > >-- > >M.Ridha >Software Engineering Research Group >Department of Computer Science & Engineering >Arizona State University > > >Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ >Before you buy.