Opportunity for Usability Evaluation

Mon Dec 10 16:56:56 PST 2001

On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 03:29:08PM -0800, Nicole Harrington wrote:
> 
>  So.. Sys Admins without at least a bachlors degree are to stupid to eval the
> product?  So they want to make sure "well educated" people can use their
> product but not those who have many years of experience but no 4 year degree?
>  So is the less educated product testing to come later?
> 
> Anyone else see a problem here?
> 
> > The minimum criteria for participation are:
> >     * Bachelor's degree or greater

Yes, I do. I am also wondering why they have no listed Apache in
the list of webservers, considering that is still by far the
highest ranking server on http://www.netcraft.co.uk/survey/

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> 
>   Nicole
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> On 10-Dec-01 Kristyn Greenwood wrote:
> > Hello, We have an opportunity that we think members of BayLisa would be 
> > interested in.  We will be conducting some usability evaluations of a 
> > web server product over the next couple of months and are looking for 
> > individuals with web administration experience to provide feedback on 
> > the product.
> > 
> > The first usability evaluation will take place between in January. Each 
> > individual evaluation session will take about 4 hours. To thankyou for 
> > your participation you would receive a number of AMEX gift checks(like 
> > travelers cheques).  If you meet the criteria listed at the end ofthis 
> > email and you think you might be interested in participating, 
> > pleaserespond to this email with the following information.
> > 
> >     Your name:
> >     Your job title:
> >     Your daytime phone number:
> >     
> > We will then call you to determine whether you fit the user profile 
> > required for this study.
> > 
> > The minimum criteria for participation are:
> > 
> >     * Recently employed as a System Administrator or Database 
> >       Administrator with at least 2 years of experience
> >     * Experience supporting a web site
> >     * Bachelor's degree or greater
> >     * Experience working with Solaris at least 1 year
> >     * Previous Experience working with Web Servers & Application Servers 
> >       (BEA, Websphere, Netscape Server, JBoss, etc...)
> >       
> > Thanks for your interest,
> > 
> > Kristyn Greenwood
> > Principal Usability Engineer
> > Oracle Corporation
> > kristyn.greenwood at oracle.com <mailto:kristyn.greenwood at oracle.com>
> > 
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