Chris , Competed the survey , I think I understand why some might feel issues with the financial questions but it’s a fair point to understand on how there can be avenues to maximize savings for one services if you can get automation rolled in with it . All the best with the survey
On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 2:37 AM Chris Grundemann <cgrundem...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 2:30 PM Tom Beecher <beec...@beecher.cc> wrote: > >> Having the opt out is nice, but if I am being completely honest, it gives >> me pause as to what the intent of this survey is in the first place. >> >> I perhaps may be hyper cynical, but those feel like a straight line >> towards the standard salesperson line of "look at what you are spending now >> on FOO , you could save X if you used BAR". >> > > Fair play, Tom. All I can say is that after 20 years of working on, in, > and around the Internet, I'm sure as hell not going to ruin my reputation > now. > > The intent of the survey is exactly as I stated: To report network > automation trends back to the community. > > And whether we engineers like it or not, one of the best ways to measure > trends is in the relative amount of money organizations spend on them... > > HTH, > ~Chris > > >> On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 4:12 PM Chris Grundemann <cgrundem...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 12:15 PM Tom Beecher <beec...@beecher.cc> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> I was also off put by some of the financial questions in there. >>>> >>> >>> The financial questions (2 of them) both allow opt-out if that is a >>> sticking point. They are also both as vague as possible (large ranges, not >>> exact figures) while still providing something to baseline against. >>> >>> >>> >
