COMMON Attendance (was: COMMON Focus was: SQL Finding & Using)

In all seriousness, they are known to someone. COMMON announces total
attendance which includes:

o Paid Attendees
o Complementary attendees (such as myself by virtue of having "speaker
credits")
o Expo Vendors
o IBMers
o Spouses

I too would like to know the number of paid attendees, but it is kept a
secret. I suspect that System i classroom education (i.e.: COMMON and
various other venues) is dropping because of many factors:

o The platform is less strategic to the general public as IBM has been
milking profit off it for decades.
o EBCDIC computing is no longer taught in schools. When I graduated
from RPI (Troy, NY) in 1975, I was well schooled in S/360, and was in a
good position to evaluate the System/38 as strategic technology in 1978
when I tripped across it. RPI no longer teaches EBCDIC computing. When I
asked the dean of the school of science about that his precise words were:
"Why would you ever want to know about that, you'd have to be IBM to use
it."
o Today, the correct spelling of "strategic" is "w i n d o z e".

It's a sad state of affairs, and unfortunately IBM gets the blame.

Al

Al Barsa, Jr.
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LOL Al

That means they might be known to NO one!

Vern

At 01:09 PM 9/22/2007, you wrote:

The "paid attendance" numbers from Common are more widely known that the
location of Osama.

Al

Al Barsa, Jr.
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