Re: SIS: Talk about a shift in partners...
I thought how long did you work for IBM and Informix a reasonable question. Cheers Paul Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > Splintter, > > You come here "claiming to be 'new to Informix from Oracle'" yet you're > not anything of the sort. You're an old sock puppet. > Seems that you're only here to troll and bring conversations down to the > gutter. > > Perhaps that the only paper you use, if you can swipe one from the work > site's porta-pottie without anyone looking. > Unfortunately that gutter trash talk may play well with your fellow > crack heads, but not hear. > > For those who grok IBM S&D, owning paper means that you've written the > contract and "own" the contract. > You are also usually the point person on the Seibel entry for that deal. > > Since you want to know... I didn't keep track of all the deals that I > was responsible for writing. I believe I wrote more that $12 million > dollars in services deals, conservatively. Closer to 15+ million, and > then there were deals that I wrote that were extended past the time I > left. Definitely a couple of million since they were either > multi-million dollar contracts or relationships with GSI partners that I > helped to create. > > Now that was the services contract revenue. I don't know if I could > count up the millions of dollars of deals where lab services were used > to cement the DW and Hardware sales...(Cross sell/upsell) And my numbers > don't inlcude the 5 million dollar multi-year services deal which Steve > Mills personally discounted to well below cost to close a major deal in > Brooklyn. (So even if it wasn't discounted, I wasn't going to see a dime > of rev rec because we are comp'd on accrued revenue only.) > > How many people here can say that? Stu? Ron? maybe. That was in a short > timeframe, with 2 managers who screwed the team. We only had one good > manager. And for those first three years, under that manager, I exceeded > quota. > > So yeah, I know what I'm talking about when it comes to working with > BCS/IGS, Client Reps, SSRs, and Pillar Specialty reps. IT Specialists? > They just focus on the products only. They don't worry about how the > deal gets done. They don't have to worry about protecting the brand. > > I just wonder which is smaller, the pea brain in your head, or the mass > of what one could call your 'twigs and berries'? > > L8r doode > > PS. Long enough that what I saw disgusted me. Don't get me wrong. There > are people who care about the quality of their work. But they are in the > minority. That's why a lot of senior partners from PWC took the money > and ran when they could. > > -G > > > From: splintter@ymail.com > > Subject: Re: SIS: Talk about a shift in partners... > > Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:16:55 -0700 > > To: informix-list@iiug.org > > > > On Aug 25, 9:05 pm, Ian Michael Gumby <im_gu...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > On Aug 25, 7:46 pm, splint...@ymail.com wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Aug 25, 6:32 pm, Ian Michael Gumby <im_gu...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Aug 25, 4:31 pm, "da...@smooth1.co.uk" <da...@smooth1.co.uk> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Do the peoplesoft sales team recommend oracle as the primary > database > > > > > > to go with peoplesoft? > > > > > > > > > After all it is the same company so why would they want the > revenue to > > > > > > go elsewhere? > > > > > > > > Most likely. After all, customers worry about choosing a > platform that > > > > > will be supported in future releases. Since Oracle owns Peoplesoft, > > > > > its logical that the rep will push Oracle as the base database, > unless > > > > > of course the customer is a DB2 shop, then you go with what the > > > > > customer knows. > > > > > > > Gumball - > > > > > > > I was a question: > > > > > > > 1. how long did you work at IBM? > > > > 2. how long did you work at Informix? > > > > > > > Which all this knowledge of how IBM and Informix do business in > > > > industry, I think it must be long time? > > > > > > > Splintter > > > > > > The Gumball comment outs Splintter.... > > > LOL > > > > > > Dude, I've spent enough time in both to know how they operate. And > > > unlike an IT Specialist, I owned paper. > > > > Paper? In your person, perhaps "toilette paper" would be right type? > > > > Can you not answer questions? How long = "long enough?" > > > > Splintter-Want-to-Know > > _______________________________________________ > > Informix-list mailing list > > Informix-list@iiug.org > > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > See what people are saying about Windows Live. Check out featured posts. > Check It Out! > <http://www.windowslive.com/connect?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_connect2_082008>;