Re: Food for Thought

[Trevor Perry <trevor@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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