Fall COMMON conference

[Glenn Ericson <Glenn-Ericson@xxxxxxx>]

While little has been said about people attending this Falls COMMON in Miami,
I am sure there are  many folks on the lists attending. 8-)

     **  Can you  share  with the  rest of the list :
                * your top reasons for attending
                             and
        *  The areas, topics or functions of most interest and value to you

At 01:51 PM 8/9/2006, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I guess that is based on a couple of beliefs:
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> I - What is COMMON's role?  Education?  Resolutions?  Wait in line at
> SoundOff as one person after another repeats the same boring mantras about
> marketing and the pros and cons of name changes (which does NOT have the
> effect of drilling it in but simple causes us all to tone it out)?
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> II - That i5/os has no value.  Only hardware has value.  And the fact that
> you purchase something with a lot of things included that you have to pay
> piecemeal for on other platforms is irrelevant.
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> Rob Berendt
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> On 8/9/06, wmadden@xxxxxxxxxx <wmadden@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >  My manager would like for someone to go
> > > but, apparently, a lot of people don't want to be bothered with
> > education,
> > > whether COMMON or some other.  So she was pleasantly surprised when I
> > told
> > > her I'd like to go.
> >
> > That comment just blows my mind. I know that many on this list are those
> > that DO get education, but wow ... I'm glad these people are Doctors ...
> > I'd hate to employ a doctor that didn't feel compelled to get more
> > education!
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> the education is great but Common to me is complicit in the gearing
> down and over pricing of the i5. What good is learning how to use PHP
> or PASE for example, when the typical i5 model is too slow to use
> those products as a core part of the system?
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> Timothy Prickett Morgan of ITJungle lays it on the line:
> "...As I have said for many years, I think IBM's high prices for
> configured machines--with or without 5250 support--are limiting the
> appeal of the System i5 among the small and medium businesses that are
> the bread and butter of this OS/400 ecosystem. It is a very cynical
> IBM that is willing to risk alienating over 200,000 customers by such
> pricing practices, and it shows once again how modern corporations
> just run in 13-week cycles and often do not, regardless of what they
> profess to the contrary, engage in true long-term pricing and
> competitive strategy. ..."
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> http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh080706-story01.html
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> -Steve
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