RE: Whatcha' wanta have?????
Interesting thoughts - being outside of the BoD of the IIUG for the last several years I wonder if they have the bandwidth or other resources to conduct such a survey at this time. Since this should be a IBM Marketing function (aka - what are our customer's asking us for?) perhaps they could provide the necessary resources, personnel, etc and just have the IIUG in an email blast or newsletter point to the appropriate maze in the IBM website to collect the information. Madison - care to comment? Rob Vorbroker --- malcolm weallans <malcolm.iiug@btopenworld.com> wrote: > Much has been requested. Much more must already be > available from > previous wish lists. Why don't we resurrect the > IIUG surveys to > determine which features are wanted by most of the > users, not just the > vociferous ones. I would suggest a slight > modification to the methods > used before. One the list has been compiled IBM > should decide what the > various features will cost. Thuis will then be > factoted into a survey > whereby the users are given 100 resources to play > with and they must > allocate the recources to the various features, > bearing in the mind the > resource cost for each one. Then we could be more > sure that priority is > going to the right features. > > Regards > > Malcolm > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org > [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] > On Behalf Of Rob Vorbroker > Sent: 16 February 2004 16:30 > To: Informix List > Subject: RE: Whatcha' wanta have????? > > > So Madison, Serge or Jonathan; > > Are you going to compile a list of the great ideas > and > publish said back to this newsgroup list. Fantasy > would be to have someone identify what will be in > IDS > v9.5 or v9.6. Certainly you could do that and scare > the heck out of Orrible and sqealserver types (maybe > even inspire the db2 group you work with to aim > higher). > > Maybe it's a dream but that information makes a lot > more sense to promote to the IIUG than white paper > rhetoric. IMHO. > > Rob Vorbroker > > ===== > Rob Vorbroker Phone: > 513/336-8695 > Vorbroker Consulting, Inc. Fax: > 513/336-6812 > www.vorbroker.com > robv@vorbroker.com > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing > online. > http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html > sending to informix-list > ===== Rob Vorbroker Phone: 513/336-8695 Vorbroker Consulting, Inc. Fax: 513/336-6812 www.vorbroker.com robv@vorbroker.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html sending to informix-list
There are advantages to that. However, having a thread like this is much like an electronic brainstorming session. ;-) We already get a lot of input from marketing, IIUG, VARs and partners. However, the newsgroup is a bit more of a democratic forum and allows the customers in general to voice their requests. I suspect that with an IIUG questioneer, we would tend to get a smaller subset of items because generally most folks have the same key items that they want. "Rob Vorbroker" <rvorbroker@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:c0r4m5$c3n$1@terabinaries.xmission.com... > > Interesting thoughts - being outside of the BoD of the > IIUG for the last several years I wonder if they have > the bandwidth or other resources to conduct such a > survey at this time. Since this should be a IBM > Marketing function (aka - what are our customer's > asking us for?) perhaps they could provide the > necessary resources, personnel, etc and just have the > IIUG in an email blast or newsletter point to the > appropriate maze in the IBM website to collect the > information. > > Madison - care to comment? > > Rob Vorbroker > --- malcolm weallans <malcolm.iiug@btopenworld.com> > wrote: > > Much has been requested. Much more must already be > > available from > > previous wish lists. Why don't we resurrect the > > IIUG surveys to > > determine which features are wanted by most of the > > users, not just the > > vociferous ones. I would suggest a slight > > modification to the methods > > used before. One the list has been compiled IBM > > should decide what the > > various features will cost. Thuis will then be > > factoted into a survey > > whereby the users are given 100 resources to play > > with and they must > > allocate the recources to the various features, > > bearing in the mind the > > resource cost for each one. Then we could be more > > sure that priority is > > going to the right features. > > > > Regards > > > > Malcolm > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org > > [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] > > On Behalf Of Rob Vorbroker > > Sent: 16 February 2004 16:30 > > To: Informix List > > Subject: RE: Whatcha' wanta have????? > > > > > > So Madison, Serge or Jonathan; > > > > Are you going to compile a list of the great ideas > > and > > publish said back to this newsgroup list. Fantasy > > would be to have someone identify what will be in > > IDS > > v9.5 or v9.6. Certainly you could do that and scare > > the heck out of Orrible and sqealserver types (maybe > > even inspire the db2 group you work with to aim > > higher). > > > > Maybe it's a dream but that information makes a lot > > more sense to promote to the IIUG than white paper > > rhetoric. IMHO. > > > > Rob Vorbroker > > > > ===== > > Rob Vorbroker Phone: > > 513/336-8695 > > Vorbroker Consulting, Inc. Fax: > > 513/336-6812 > > www.vorbroker.com > > robv@vorbroker.com > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing > > online. > > http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html > > sending to informix-list > > > > > ===== > Rob Vorbroker Phone: 513/336-8695 > Vorbroker Consulting, Inc. Fax: 513/336-6812 > www.vorbroker.com robv@vorbroker.com > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. > http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html > sending to informix-list >