Re: IDS 11 - Press Releases

Posted in 2007

Obnoxio The Clown — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:43:38 +0100 (BST) — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Ian Michael Gumby said: > > Eric, > > I think you missed my point. > > In the IBM sales world, you have artificial boundries that make up your > territory. > > So lets say you support the entertainment industry in NY,NY. You have a > client who has its IT operations in central Indiana, a different region. > > You as the sales team have responsibility and credit for all sales to that > operation since their HQ is in your dog patch. That means that you > routinely > will have to hop a plane and visit that location. If they have any > questions > or support problems, you handle them. > > The local reps and IT specialists will not get engaged since the account > isn't in their "territory". > > This is what I mean by artificial boundries. > > Now take that to the universities. There's a seperate group that handles > them. > > When you have a brand specific "assault team". That could be comming from > the labs and would be yet a different group. > > Some are cross matrixed, some are not. > > Does this make sense? Yes, but where is the Informix student schmoozing? >>From: eric@herber-consulting.de >>Take a look here what IBM is doing regarding universities and >>students: >> >>http://db2expressc.blogspot.com/ >> >>IBM has a whole team that is focussed on promoting DB2 Express-C and >>they visit >>universities worldwide. >> >>I would be more than happy if to see the same things happening for >>IDS. >> > > >>_______________________________________________ >>Informix-list mailing list >>Informix-list@iiug.org >>http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list > > _________________________________________________________________ > Picture this share your photos and you could win big! > http://www.GETREALPhotoContest.com?ocid=TXT_TAGHM&loc=us > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by OpenProtect(http://www.openprotect.com), and is > believed to be clean. > > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list > -- Bye now, Obnoxio "I'm astonished anyone pays real money for this crap." -- Cosmo -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by OpenProtect(http://www.openprotect.com), and is believed to be clean.