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"Do we have anything like COMMON in Europe BTW?"

YES there is COMMON in several locations in Europe and Australia, Asia etal.


At 01:53 AM 9/19/2006, Raby, Steve wrote:
I totally agree, are IBM ever going to try and market the iSeries properly? I mentioned it to an IBM engineer once (he came to change the battery on the box) and he said "But I see iSeries posters everywhere!" Yeah just like the "Eat more Meat" campaign where all the butchers had posters in their shops but not many anywhere else.

Do we have anything like COMMON in Europe BTW?

Steve
Grumpy old Englishman

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Onderwerp: RE: News from COMMON?


If you have to be a common member to signup, then just preaching to the
choir again. Message will not reach potential converts.

Gregory A. Garner
Garner Data Systems, Inc.
4270 Grand Teton Parkway
Suwanee, GA 30024
Phone: 770 845 9636  Fax:770 614 3496


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Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 1:44 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: News from COMMON?

I absolutely agree.  The point I was trying to make was that this was an
"organizational" announcement, not technical and not marketing (at
least, directly).  The bottom line being if we organize and evangelize
we'll get more folks looking at System i.

This is very new and I think IBM was still sitting the fence on what
they think the outcome will be.  I think Common members might be able to
make a difference but how BIG a difference remains to be seen.  I can't
recall a computing hardware platform where "guerrilla marketing" or
viral videos or non-traditional marketing techniques have had a
noticeable impact on sales.  That *could* be because non-traditional
methods of marketing may not work for the decision-makers (usually
conservative, traditional types) in IT arenas.  I don't know for sure.

This will be cool if it works and it has my full emotional support.  My
"business hat" side isn't so sure.

We'll see.

Pete


Don wrote:
> Pete,
>
> I think Trevor and alot of the rest of us see what this CAN become.  And I

> think he's got some interesting ideas on this things future....
>
> So, let's see what happens...
>
> Don in DC
>
> At 09:02 AM 9/18/2006 -0600, you wrote:
>
>> The link is up and running now.
>>
>>  From my perspective, it was a little over hyped, but then Trevor is a
>> bit over the top anyhow. Generally the announcement was a good thing but
>> it still need more buy in from the user community (I think).  It was
>> affirmed by all but I am not sure that it would have be characterized as
>> "enthusiastically" received.  But, then a user community enhancement,
>> rather than a hardware and software announcement, is a bit different.  I
>> am think thinking on it and what the overall impact it will have.
>>
>> Gotta, go, PHP on System i workshop is starting....
>>
>> Pete Helgren
>>
>>
>> Haase, Justin C. wrote:
>>
>>> Doesn't bode well if it's running on an i.  Or is this a neat trick to
>>> say "See what happens when you run it on Windows?"
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Justin C. Haase - iSeries System Engineer
>>> IBM Certified Systems Expert - System i
>>> Kingland Systems Corporation
>>>
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>>>
>>> The site is down
>>>
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