Looking for real configuration data

[Sorry if you receive multiple copies of this message.] [Please feel free to forward the message to others who may be interested.] Hi, We are a computer systems research group at the Computer Science department at Rutgers University, and are conducting research on simplifying the software configuration process. The idea is to leverage the configurations of existing users of a piece of software to ease the configuration process for each new user of the software. The reason for this message is that we would like to collect a large number of deployed configurations to help evaluate our ideas. Thus, we ask systems administrators and end users to submit information about their configurations for any software that they have had to configure, such as Apache, MySQL, and Linux. We hope that you have a few minutes to take our survey which is located at: http://vivo.cs.rutgers.edu/massconf/MassConf.html As an incentive, all surveys completed in their entirety will be entered into a drawing of a number of $50 gift certificates (from Amazon.com). Important: Our work is purely scientific, so we have no interest in any private or commercially sensitive information that may come along with your configuration data. We will make sure that no such information is ever made public. In fact, if you wish, you are more than welcome to anonymize or remove any sensitive information from the configuration data you send us. If you have any questions regarding this message or our work, feel free to email Wei Zheng (wzheng at cs dot rutgers dot edu). Thanks for your time, Wei Zheng PhD student, Vivo Research Group (http://vivo.cs.rutgers.edu) Rutgers University

Hello, In case you have not received this announcement by other means: ----------------------------- Hello Informix Users! Well, we finally have an agenda for the fall meeting!! I hope you have saved the date, eg. Thursday, September 10th, to come to our meeting. As we discussed at the last meeting, this quarters theme will be around Application Development. We have an exciting agenda planned. We are pleased to announce that the esteemed Jonathan Leffler will be coming to Schaumburg to speak on Informix 4GL. We also have a local guru, Mr. Jamie Gebhard, who will be speaking on the new Informix Virtual Appliance and explore what that means to the Informix community. So, down to the details... As I said, the next meeting will be on Thursday, September 10th at the IBM Schaumburg offices (please note: NOT DOWNTOWN!!). Here is the agenda: 8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast (provided by IBM) 9:00 - 10:15 The Informix Virtual Appliance, or "Where do I get all the Free Stuff!" Presented by Jamie Gebhard, IDS developer 10:15 - 10:30 Break 10:30 - 11:45 Informix 4GL Roadmap presented by Jonathan Leffler, Member Technical Staff, IBM Informix 11:45 - 1:00 Lunch (provided by IBM) 1:00 - 2:15 SQL Tuning w/IDS 11.5, Tips & Tricks Presented by Jeff Filippi 2:15 - 2:30 Break 2:30 - 3:45 App Development for Informix using GeneXus Presented by Roy Hart, GeneXus 3:45 - 5:00 Networking If you saw Jeff's SQL Tuning presentation a couple of years ago, please plan to see this one. He has re-done it for all the new features available in 11.5, and it's really good! For those of you who may not have been to the IBM offices in Schaumburg, we are located at 10 N. Martingale Road, Woodfield Preserve. The building is about a mile south of the Woodfield Mall area. We will be in the South White Pines room on the second floor. We really hope you can make it to this meeting as it should be a good one. If you can make it, please contact me, Rob Beal, (rbeal at us.ibm.com). Let me know if you have any questions as well. We hope to see you there! and as always, thanks for your continued support of Informix! Best Regards Rob Beal Certified Senior I/T Specialist IBM Software Group, Data Management