The following summary reflects the major trends found in the survey. In certain cases, I've included comments in parentheses which address issues raised by the survey responses. As expected, most SACs are running the UNIX operating system HP-UX version 9.05 at 64 MHz. About half the responding offices have at least one other UNIX workstation in their office. Reasons for not using the SAC include no time, no access to real time data, and availability of other tools.
Archived data is somewhat underutilized.
Again, no time is cited as the reason. Nearly all of those who've actually used the data have only used portions of the case study. Respondents were asked about the effectiveness of these mailing lists in a variety of categories. For exchanging technical ideas with colleagues, getting help in solving problems, and learning about hardware and software issues, the respondents found the mailing lists to be somewhat to very effective. However, the respondents found the mailing lists only somewhat effective for exchanging philosophical and scientific ideas.