RE: Iseries Education and marketing

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxx>]

Chuck, Booth -

I see the same kind of demographics at the IBM iSeries Tech conf's...

Don in DC




At 02:56 PM 1/18/2006 -0500, you wrote:
> Very interesting observations Booth !
>
> Chuck
>
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> We had this discussion at the New England conference a couple of years.
>   A comment was made about going to the back of the room at COMMON and
> looking at the backs of the heads to see the "Graying of COMMON".
>
> So, we went to the back of the room in Framingham and we looked for
> ourselves.  That was NOT what we saw.  We discussed what we saw:  The
> number of female heads of hair, the number of really young heads of
> hair, the number of minorities, and the obvious interest of the audience.
>
> We concluded that going to COMMON is a perk, awarded to the senior
> staff; the regional meetings like Framingham are cheaper so the
> companies send their junior staff, too.
>
> Last night was the Dallas User Group.  I didn't count, but thinking
> back, I'd guess half the attendees were under 35, maybe 40.  (I have
> trouble telling ages)  But certainly the meeting was not a gathering of
> the old folks.
>
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