RE: IBM's Academic Initiative

Poor OTC... You yet again miss the point? Did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed? Look, you silly git, the point was that I was initially talking about IBM and IIUG's efforts to 'seed the field' through their academic initiative. We can all go back using Google's 'time machine' and look for NJ's posts. As well as stuff on the IIUG's site. That's a totally different beast than IBM's Cloud Academic initiative which btw, is weak at best. (Oh I'm a school and I can run IBM's software in a cloud for free? But what happens when the software doesn't scale? I mean like I have 40+ dual socket 8 core intel boxes and I want a 'small' 64TB data warehouse to play with? Can you run that easily on DB2? Not really. (Note: Its relative to the level of effort of setting up an HDFS/Zookeeper/HBase cloud.) (Hint: You don't need a DBA to do it and you don't need a DBA to run it.) So that's why I'm calling Jerry out. Oh yes, lets sing the praises of IBM's Cloud computing. NOT! Lets talk about all of the missed opportunities made by Jerry and his staff. Lets talk about the fscktards FLMs of the IM IT Specialists which were incented to get their IDS staff certified on DB2. Now how many, word wide IT Specialists are certified on IDS and not on DB2? Not a whole hell of a lot. So since Janet's departure, what steps were taken to create a parity of knowledge? Nothing. Having sat through too fscking many 'all hands education calls' I can tell you that they are a waste of time. (Gee how many IBMers are sitting on the call, 'working from home' doing something else? In my case? I was usually writing e-mails and closing deals and writing contracts... You only have 12-14 hours in the day and if you want to make your numbers you need all of them. ;-) Oh there's more, you and I both know that. So lets talk about you... I clearly have no skin in the game. I make my money working on two different types of customers. One uses IDS, as an embedded database, for now... The other? Cloud computing where they database outside of the cloud isn't an IBM product. ;-) The only 'skin' in the game is pride. I am proud of the fact that I worked for Informix. I'm proud of the fact that I've gotten to know some really cool techies who designed a great product. What I am not proud of is that I saw a lot of things happen and I couldn't change them. That I had to deal with the internal politics of IBM and got to personally meet and work with a couple of the fscktard management types. (Note: Not all management types were fscktards, just a couple of them and most were not Heritage Informixers.) How about you? Knowing what you know, you feel differently? The point is that IBM is now finally reacting to the numbers. I don't know what the numbers are, but I can guess. Note: I don't have to know the numbers because I can look at public information and talk to 'former' customers and see what they are doing. I talk with recruiters and see what they are looking for in terms of IT Staffing. The numbers aren't good. No longer are we hearing "double digit growth". Sure you can see 10% growth in a market where your customers are forced to migrate to new products, or you have customers who deployed too much and had to 'true up' their licenses. But what happens when the database market is growing at a faster rate that your growth? (Hint: You still lose relative marketshare.) No marketing, no incentives to the sales force? The product is relegated to the same space as IMS. Oh yes, IBM still sells and supports IMS on the mainframe. Not that they won't try to convert you off of it on to DB2. But lets not go there. ;-) So hey! What do I know? Jerry K. finally comes out of his shell because his numbers are slipping they're now ready to do a 'new and improved' look at IDS? Gee, more lip service to the few IDS customers and attendees of the IIUG event? Lets face the facts that during the IIUG event, everyone at IBM sings the praises of IDS. They other 51 weeks of the year, IBM IM execs, outside of those who have daily IDS duties say "IDS what? who?" Unless its Wal*Mart. Clearly I seem to know more than some of those who drank the cool-aid. And a special shout out to Jerry K. Ever hear the old Chinese fable of the old man and the mountain? ;-) -G > Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:20:59 +0000 > From: obnoxio@serendipita.com > CC: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Re: IBM's Academic Initiative > > Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > > Jerry, > > > > Shame on you. > > Running your own little spin campaign. > > > > Is IBM's Cloud initiative the same thing that IBM launched with the IIUG? > > I think not. > > > > Where is the IIUG in the article? > > At the same time, Informix was mentioned only once. Along with DB2, > > Websphere. etc... > > > > This is IBM's answer to combat the fact that Universities are spending > > money teaching concepts which supplant the traditional RDBMS. With > > respect to Very large data warehouses, traditional data warehouses can > > not compete. > > > > Now I'm not suggestion everyone run out and get rid of their Informix > > XPS, DB2, Oracle databases, but that for certain cases, they can not > > effectively compete. > > If you get a chance to listen to presentations by Cloudera, you'll see why. > > > > But I digress. > > > > Jerry, suck it up and be a man. You're starting to sound like those > > fscktards like one of those IBM's pointy haired executives. You know the > > type. > > So, what we have here is Informix being treated the same as Websphere, > DB2, whatever, and you still find a way to fucking moan about it. So > what you're saying is, it's not enough for Informix to be treated the > same as everything else IBM sells, you want it to be treated > differently. But when it's treated differently, then you bitch about > that, saying that IBM doesn't respect Informix enough to treat it the > same as DB2. > > And this coming from someone who freely admits that he has no skin in > the Informix game any more. You're just another bitter failure who > couldn't cut it in the Informix marketplace. > > Really, why should anyone listen to you? > > -- > Cheers, > Obnoxio The Clown > > http://obotheclown.blogspot.com > I will now proceed to pleasure myself with this fish. > > -- > 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 _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469226/direct/01/