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Re: COMMON - the week's over...

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Don <dr2@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bob,

The policy may be one of the last nails in the coffin, but you have to keep
in mind that IBM's lack of interest in the box isn't helping it grow in the
market place at all.  Now, if this box were as well known, marketed and used
in the real world like, oh, say Oracle, then maybe you'd have the 45,000
attendees that Oracle has it it's conference...

But no, IBM is content to manage the decline of this box and force the world
into lesser machines that it can milk for higher services fees and everyone
just wanders along like lemmings over the cliff...

I agree with this completely. There is a way for COMMON to have a
large increase in attendance, 2 conferences a year, with a slew of new
faces. Get IBM to open source IBM i. Otherwise even dead enders have
to agree the conference is over.

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