Hi, Please find the time to fill out the survey below to help us to further improve syslog-ng. You can either fill it out in this mail message by entering the appropriate marks in the brackets, or on-line by pointing your browser to this url: http://www.balabit.hu/en/downloads/syslog-ng/survey/ Thanks in advance, -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear syslog-ng users, Syslog-ng as a free software has been a tremendous success. It's been in wide use for almost four years now as the first release was made back in 1998. As syslog-ng is a free software product it is very difficult to estimate the number of users of syslog-ng. Nevertheless we had over 40000 downloads in six months, and we have over 500 subscribers on our mailing list. These numbers are not exact either as syslog-ng is included in several GNU/Linux distributions like Debian. According to the Debian package popularity contest (12th May 2002) syslog-ng was used on 3% of all Debian boxes (based on 1587 submissions). To support the continous development of syslog-ng we plan to create a commercial branch, and add related services to our portfolio (consulting, training and support). Please help us to improve syslog-ng and related services, and fill the enclosed survey and send it back to syslog-ng-survey@balabit.hu. Which features do you think important to add into syslog-ng? Give importance of each feature as a number between 1 (least important) and 5 (most important). [ ] cryptographically protected logfiles stored on the local disk [ ] cryptographically protected network transmission of log information [ ] disk based message buffering to avoid losing messages [ ] flow controlled message path to avoid losing messages (cause sending programs to stop responding if log events cannot be stored) [ ] integrated support for database backends (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle) [ ] integrated support for log analysis (event correlation, statistics, suspicious events) [ ] integrated support for e-mail/pager alerts [ ] integrated support for log rotation/compression [ ] support for more platforms [ ] binary distributions for different platforms with installation program [ ] graphical user interface (GUI) for syslog-ng configuration [ ] integration tools for non-UNIX platforms (NT EventLog) What platforms are you using/plan to use syslog-ng on? Check all that apply! [ ] Linux [ ] FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD [ ] AIX [ ] HP-UX [ ] Solaris [ ] Irix [ ] Tru64 [ ] SCO Unix [ ] Other, please specify: Are you using a central syslog server? [ ] yes, we use syslog-ng on our central syslog server [ ] yes, we use a central syslog server, but it is not syslog-ng based [ ] no, we have no central syslog server, but we plan to install one [ ] no, we don't have central syslog server, and have no plans on installing one How many hosts are you running syslog-ng on? [ ] 1-10 [ ] 11-25 [ ] 26-50 [ ] 51-100 [ ] 101-250 [ ] 251-500 [ ] Other, please specify: How many devices are you logging to syslog-ng used as log host? [ ] 1-10 [ ] 11-25 [ ] 26-50 [ ] 51-100 [ ] 101-250 [ ] 251-500 [ ] 501-1000 [ ] Other, please specify Would you or your company be willing to provide syslog-ng related services to third parties? [ ] yes [ ] no Would you or your company pay for syslog-ng licenses if there was no important difference between the GPLd and non-GPLd version? [ ] yes [ ] no Would you or your company pay for syslog-ng licenses if there were important differences between the GPLd and non-GPLd version? [ ] yes [ ] no Would you or your company pay for consulting services related to syslog-ng? [ ] yes [ ] no Would you or your company pay for training services related to syslog-ng? [ ] yes [ ] no Would you or your company pay for support services related to syslog-ng? [ ] yes [ ] no -- Bazsi PGP info: KeyID 9AF8D0A9 Fingerprint CD27 CFB0 802C 0944 9CFD 804E C82C 8EB1