Re: Did ITJungle say Common was a waste of time?

On 4/3/06, Jerry Adams <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> COMMON is a user advocacy group.  Whether or not it is successful in
> that endeavor depends upon whether or not one's own issues are being
> addressed.
>
>
> 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.
>

that explains what Matt Stansberry of Search400.com wrote last week:

http://search400.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid3_gci1176709,00.html

"...System i general manager Mark Shearer said that the open mic
session is his favorite part of the conference and I could see why
with all the softballs he was fielding.  ..."

"...Some of the best and brightest minds of the iSeries community --
Al Barsa, Trevor Perry and Randall Munson -- all had the chance to
grill Shearer and his team. But rather than tackling technical issues
or pricing, the common theme for these System i luminaries was griping
about the recent name change. ..."

-Steve