Howdy,

The folks at IronGrid were cool enough to ask me if they could tap into
the collective experience of this group. And while I generally don't
like to push vendor surveys your way, I really think they've put
together a sweet deal exclusively for members of this group. The
details are included below. In short, try their latest product, fill out
a brief online survey, and in return you'll earn a $50 gift certificate
at Amazon.com. That spells "new book" for me! :-)

I haven't had a chance to try out their IronTrack SQL product yet -- it
was just unveiled today! -- but it looks like a great approach to
continuously, and automatically, testing database (JDBC) performance.
It's surely no secret that I'm a big fan of writing performance tests
once, then letting this thing called a computer run them early and often.

So, although I can't endorse IronTrack SQL at this point, I believe it's
a giant step in the right direction. Let them know what you think!

Mike

P.S. If, for any reason, you take offense to the use of this forum for
this purpose, please let me know privately.


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Hi folks,

I'm trying to collect some info about the most common JVM-level
performance problems that affect Java apps. I'd really appreciate if
you could take a minute to fill out this survey.

http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?TG11VDLC71F94R7SH8H9YS8G

Complete our survey, try our product, and get $50 at Amazon.com!

As a special Thank You for JUnitPerf group members, we're offering a $50
Amazon gift certificate to any JUnitPerf members who takes our survey
and tries our product, IronTrack SQL.

IronTrack SQL is a development tool that helps developers capture and
analyze all application-to-database activity at the JDBC level. It
offers automated database performance testing via an Ant task. This
offer is only available to current members of JUnitPerf on July 21, 2003.

To participate in this survey that will help shape our future product
strategy, just follow these 4 steps:

1. Take our survey:
http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?TG11VDLC71F94R7SH8H9YS8G
Don't forget to enter your email address at the end (this must match
your address as registered with the JUnitPerf Yahoo Group).

3. Download IronTrack SQL and try it.
http://irongrid.com/irontracksql

4. Complete the Exit Survey verifying use of IronTrack SQL (3 of
5 correct answers is sufficient to confirm an honest attempt):
http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?R734WHFSB84BDSWBAQHKWDJG

5. Get a $50 gift certificate at Amazon.com!

Thanks!

Jeremy Bencken
Product Manager
IronGrid, Inc.
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