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We are four students at the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA.  
As part of our degree requirements, we are responsible for completing a 
Management Field Study.  

As part of our Field Study, we are researching the needs of network workstation 
users.  To assist us in our study, we would ask that you please take five 
minutes to complete the following questionnaire (there are 12 questions).  
This will help provide us with the information we need to complete our Field 
Study and fulfill our degree requirements.

Also please feel free to add any additional comments that you might have.  
Thank you in advance for helping us.

Please send completed survey to pboher@agsm.ucla.edu or pboher@uclagsm.bitnet

Sincerely,

Pablo Boher		Alfonso Eyzaguirre

Steven Rayner		Thomas Tomlinson 

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We would be very interested in knowing the name of your company or institution 
and your title.  If you would not like to provide this information, please feel
free to skip this section.

COMPANY OR INSTITUTION:

TITLE:


Please check or write in your responses to the following:

1. Is your institution in a Workstation environment?
(__) YES
(__) NO

If YES, please specify the brand and number of workstations:
(__) Sun. 		How many workstations? ______
(__) IBM 		How many workstations? ______
(__) HP 		How many workstations? ______
(__) Silicon Graphics 	How many workstations? ______
(__) Other, please specify brand and number ________________________


2. Are your workstations connected in a shared network?
(__) YES
(__) NO

If YES, for what type of application are they used?

(__) Resouce sharing (e.g. disk arrays)
(__) Imaging and graphics (e.g. medical, CAD)
(__) Multimedia
(__) Interactive video entertainment
(__) Distributed data bases
(__) Other, please specify _____________________________


3. Under what type of media are your workstations connected?
(__) Token Ring
(__) FDDI
(__) Ethernet
(__) Other, please specify __________________


4. In what capacities are you involved with your workstation network?
(__) Network user
(__) System administrator
(__) Network engineer
(__) Other, please specify ___________________

5. Does the media connecting your workstations transfer data at a speed 
sufficient to meet your needs?
(__) YES
(__) NO


6. Currently, what is the biggest bottleneck, if any, in your overall system?



7. In deciding which technology to use for data transfer capability, which 
features should this system have?  Please rate each of the following factors 
from 1 to 5, 1 being not important and 5 being very important.  Place a check 
after the appropriate answer.

				(1 = Not Important, 5 = Very Important)

Speed				1(__)  2(__)  3(__)  4(__)  5(__)
Upgradability of Components	1(__)  2(__)  3(__)  4(__)  5(__)
Expandability			1(__)  2(__)  3(__)  4(__)  5(__)
Comapatibility			1(__)  2(__)  3(__)  4(__)  5(__)
Reliability			1(__)  2(__)  3(__)  4(__)  5(__)
Interoperability		1(__)  2(__)  3(__)  4(__)  5(__)
Cost				1(__)  2(__)  3(__)  4(__)  5(__)
Other, please specify ___	1(__)  2(__)  3(__)  4(__)  5(__)


8.  How do you or your colleagues stay current on new products and new 
technologies?  Please check those sources you use and list specific sources.
(__) Magazines: _____________________________
(__) Seminars:  _____________________________
(__) Suppliers: _____________________________
(__) Electronic Bulletin Board:  ________________
(__) Trade Shows: ___________________________
(__) Other: ________________________________


9.  When you wish to upgrade or alter your system, how do you go about it?  
Please check all that apply.
(__) Ourselves, in-house people
(__) Sales and/or Service Vendor
(__) System Integrator
(__) Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM)
(__) Other, please specify _______________________________________


10.  What are your impressions of ATM?



11.  What are your impressions of Fibre Channel?



12. If an ATM Adapter that transfers data at 155 Mbit/second was priced at 
$2,500, how much would you be willing to pay for a Fibre Channel Adapter that 
moves data:

At 266 Mbit/second? $_____________

At 1.062 Gigabit/second? $_________


Please send completed survey to pboher@agsm.ucla.edu

Thank you very much!