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Among other things COMMON has re-instated the Requirements process. Actually, re-invented would be a better description since on the old model one had to attend the conference to enter a requirement. I think that has been removed. In fact, if I heard (and remembered) correctly, even non-COMMON members can enter them.
I attended the Town Hall meeting last week. I got ticked off and left after the 10th person during "open mike" griped out "changing the name." Once was more than enough, plus it was addressed *before* the "open mike". My point here being that this was a great venue to say something useful to Mark Shearer that was mostly wasted.
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Steve Richter wrote:
Is, should COMMON be a user advocacy group? from http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh032706-story01.html "...As I prepare to fly out to Minneapolis to attend yet another COMMON iSeries user group meeting, I find myself pondering how iSeries shops could bring their collective weight to bear on IBM to compel it to behave in ways that the user community desires. Because the iSeries does not have direct competition, IBM doesn't price and package the iSeries in a way that many of us believe it ought to so it can compete against Windows, Linux, and Unix platforms. While IBM has a large customer advisory council, COMMON, and regional user groups all feeding in requirements and offering advice to Big Blue on how to improve the iSeries, that is not the same thing as having the power to actually compel IBM to change its behavior. ..." "... Like many people in the OS/400 community, if I have an argument at all, it is almost never with IBM's Rochester labs, where the OS/400 platform is created and manufactured, but rather with IBM's Somers offices, where the marketing and sales plans are hatched and where the pricing and packaging decisions are made. Getting Rochester to listen is easy, since the techies aim to please. Getting Somers to listen is hard, since the marketeers aim to make as much money in the shortest term with the least possible amount effort. They do this because that's what marketeers at public companies do. ..."
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