Re: News from COMMON?

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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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