bshopp wrote:
We have asked this question before in surveys, but not gotten a ton of feedback on.
I guess in this case I would be curious about who the Toolset are? Are they folks where Toolset is their only SW product or are they people using it in support of their Orion environments like me? I am guessing that the folks that have it as their only SW product are much less likely to be heavily engaged in Thwack thus not responding to the surveys. If they are the using it to support their Orion environment they likely have larger budgets where the annual maintenance on ET is somewhat trivial and thus they just don't think much about it. These are of course complete guesses on my part.
What made me start to think about it had nothing to do with the budget piece as it truly is rather trivial as far as maintenance is concerned in the grand scheme of our SW products. I was looking through the tools to see if there was anything there to help one of my network engineers out with a project he was working on and realize that just about all of the tools in there are mostly useless or have freely available alternatives available on the internet. I also realize that despite many past attempts at finding usefulness in the tools for my other engineers I was the only person that ever used them and I only really ever use the MIB Walker and the MIB Browser. While I was looking for my engineer I ran across the Network Sonar and launched it to see what it did and felt like I had stepped back to Windows 3.1.