The time-honored tradition of the HP System Improvement Ballot (SIB) returns in the next month, as Interex opens up online balloting for the to-do list HP’s 3000 managers consult when enhancing your favorite server. After meetings between HP engineers and 3000 advocates in Special Interest Groups of Interex, the SIB went out to the world in early June at the Interex Web site. By browsing to www.interex.org/advocacy/survey/mpesib00.html, you will find 60 proposed enhancements ranging from a reboot procedure similar to HP-UX (and simpler, we assume, since those systems go through rebooting more often) to a way to skip the logon and password routines if you’re already maxed out on users online. (Sounds like a really useful item to us, if skipping user frustration is important in shops bumping up against user license limits.) Your requests go to HP managers to consider only if you vote by July 15, and anyone can vote to tell HP how they want the 3000 improved. Discussion will also get logged to the site, Interex promises, and HP will examine the vote results during a session at HP World this coming September.