Re: COMMON

[Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm always curious about that. If a customer is running AIX on Power, does
that mean anything to me? I'm an iSeries guy...I know OS/400 and RPG and all
the stuff involved with that. And I know AIX too, and in terms of
integration, that's a good thing. But is the hardware important? When I work
with a client, my value add is knowledge of OS/400 and RPG and
bidness...it's not knowledge about the hardware. If I was a hardware based
BP, it would be different. But I think most folks in this segment of the
industry are software folks rather than hardware folks.

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Jeffrey M. Carey <
jeffreymcarey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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