Re: COMMON

["Jeffrey M. Carey" <jeffreymcarey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There are many more shops using AIX alone - that is the audience I'm talking about.  It is a growing market as IBM consimes more and more of HP and Sun's market share. 

We want to help all users of the Power platform - even those who don't use the best OS!

-----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: May 7, 2009 7:57 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: COMMON
>
> It seems the AIX intro to COMMON is more about keeping COMMON alive
> than trying to facilitate meeting the need of a new group.  If I had
> to guess I would say there are many more AS400 shops using Windows
> servers than AIX - but maybe I just come into contact with the
> minority.
>
> Aaron Bartell
>
> On 5/7/09, Jeffrey M. Carey <jeffreymcarey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > One point on the below: AIX.  First of all, IBM is firmly behind the
> > unification of the platform, so this is a high priority for them.  Aligning
> > with IBM makes their support much easier, albeit it is not what it once was
> > just because of budgets.
> >
> > More importantly, this is a huge segement of the Power systems market.  If
> > we could get even half the attendees to the IBM Technical conference that
> > attend for AIX, we wouldn'r be in such a dire straits.   There is the
> > conference, but there is noreal group like COMMON for AIX.  We can offer
> > much to this community just as we have offered to the i community (and all
> > the other platforms we discussed from 1960 on).
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: rob@xxxxxxxxx
> > > Sent: May 7, 2009 8:27 AM
> > > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Subject: Re: COMMON
> > >
> > > Lowest priorities.
> > > b.. Conference presentations on a particular topic:  AIX
> >
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