RES: Food for Thought

Trevor,

But that's the point, how can I promote Academic Initiative? I do have an "I
love iSeries" sticker on my car and people asks me about because they can't
understand what it means. Local user Groups were closed several years ago.
And so on...

You've listed a number of good ideas, why not IBM start doing them? It's own
website show blades available only for AIX and Linux!

How to make people believe we're right and the world is wrong?

Hope for some radical changes soon, if not I'll be more desperate than
anyone else.

Regards,

Rubens

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De: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Em nome de Trevor Perry
Enviada em: terça-feira, 18 de novembro de 2008 13:56
Para: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Assunto: Re: Food for Thought

Rubens,

I see your perspective is positive and evangelistic. Keep that up! Bottle
it, and send some to Don - he is in desperate need.

I think there are tons of opportunities behind the scenes to promote i. Get
engaged with the YiPs (http://wwww.youngiprofessionals.com). Promote the
Academic Initiative to your local schools and colleges. Wear your Power
Systems t-shirt to the gym or the zoo. Attend local i user groups and
promote the future of i - annoy the crap out of the people who are there to
reminisce about the glorious past of the AS/400 :-) Find a local business
group or chamber of commerce and discuss how IBM i works so well for
business. Write a report for your local newspaper on how i works for you.
Write a case study about your environment for the industry magazines.

I am sure there are hundreds more ideas.
Hope that helps,
Trevor



On 11/18/08 9:13 AM, "Rubens Lehmann" <rubens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Dear Trevor,

Maybe that fits to DR2, but how can I change my perspective?

Almost nobody knows what the platform does, ranging from "AS/400" to
"Power Servers" it simply don't exists for most IT people.

As I know, there's just one single school teaching something about i
down here.

Of course that I always talked about i to everyone wich asks me, but
excluding me and IBM, how many are doing this here? 50? 100? Maybe 1,000?
How can that compare to Microsoft or Linux efforts? It's just a drop
on the ocean...

Notice that despite all of that IBM is selling a lot of boxes down
here, I just think what stratospherical numbers could be reached with
some more extra effort.


Thanks,


Rubens