Re: IIUG Conference 2010

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On May 2, 10:16*am, "Neil Truby" <neil.tr... (AT) ardenta (DOT) com> wrote:

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Finally back and recovering. *When Dante described the various levels of
Hell he had presumably not stood in line at Immigration at Chicago's O'Hare
airport ;-) [4 booths open for 1,000 visitors to the US; none of the staff
able to walk along with dogs shouting "Get in one line!" could presumably
have been re-deployed to open more ...?]

Because the guys who patrol the lines, even with dogs are not the same

staff used to handle the counters.
Now the trick of getting through the lines is timing. Your flight
arrival times and then hustling to get there first from your flight.
Now if you were OTC, I'd say leave the clown suit at home. ;-)

[SNIP]

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Execs Q&A

... *A
case in point was the first one, about the disparity between the
"double-digit growth" we occasionally hear about from Execs and the picture
we hear from the local sales teams, which is more downbeat. *I still don't
know who's wrong, or whether in fact they might both be right in different
ways, and we're certainly no clearer after this session.

Ah... that's part of IBM's new game "Spin the numbers". Now one thing

for certain. Local sales reps don't know the numbers outside of their
clients and maybe some have access to the territory. So you could have
a single large client do well, or growth in the .dot com office (SMB
space) and the larger clients are switching out IDS for MySQL. Sears?
HomeDepot? Dare I say Wal*Mart? (OK, Wal*Mart gets huge discounts just
to keep them happy). :-)

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I don't believe that the execs are delibertely evasive, I just don't think
some of them appreciate the frustrations of the Informix community as to the
lack of visibility of Informix within IBM.

Boy do they have you snowed. They *are* being evasive. :-)

And of the execs, outside of Jerry K, how many are Informix
Heritage? ;-)

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Alyse Passarelli (sp?) spoke at some length about the competitioon,
focussing exclusively on Oracle. *I found this quite surprising since we
generally find that SQL Server is the major competitor to Informix. *Perhaps
it is that execs like Ms Passarelli tend to meet only the bigger customers,
where Oracle is more prevalent, whereas out on the field the average
customer or ISV we encounter is much smaller and more open to the Microsoft
message? *Or, as an IBMer suggested to me, perhaps it's just that IBM as a
whole is ever more obsessed with Oracle since its takeover of Sun ...

Uhm you do know who now owns MySQL, don't you? ;-)

(Do I have to spell it out?)

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Either way I found this answer a little concerning as I can't help thinking
IBM may still be fighting the wrong battle.

You're a giant, you fight other giants.

You don't fight the little guy. If you lose, you look worse than if
you didn't get in to the fight in the first place.

There's more, but I don't want to bore you with non-technical stuff.

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