RE: Announcing: The IBM Customer Advisory Council for Informix
Dear Mark, If few names on this mailing list acting negativley towards any Informix news or even threads that does not mean they are speaking on behalf of the entire informix community. Your work (and others at IBM and IIUG) for Informix is definitly approciated. Nothing can be done overnight. Hopefuly, the new plans for this year will help you keeping and growing the Informix accounts base. It is not possible to always read/respond to every thread on this list because some of us actually have other positive work need to be done. So keep the good news comming Bas. -----Original Message----- From: mark.scranton@gmail.com [mailto:mark.scranton@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 2:02 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: Announcing: The IBM Customer Advisory Council for Informix Wow ... Why can't the announcement of the CAC for Informix be what it was intended? ....good news for the Informix community. It has now been twisted and changed into a completely different meaning than was intended. 1. I simply posted that we are forming a Customer Advisory Council for Informix - for more input from customers on the future development of Informix products. I expected some "woo hoo's" from the Informix crowd. 2. I also made note that IBM has had a CAC for DB2 for many years, and it's very active. There is also the IDUG (for DB2) which is very active too - they don't compete with each other. They "compliment each other." Why can't the Informix folks see this as an indicator that IBM would spend the money to fund and build a CAC for Informix as a good thing? 3. I never mentioned that IIUG at all in my post - and didn't need to, since this CAC is not related to, does not compete with, nor does it alter the goals and job of the IIUG. 4. No - it is not "inbound marketing" - whatever that means. It is a chance for IBM to get more detailed input of technology requirements, feedback on current releases, and start a positive dialogue about the future of Informix. I really am starting to wonder if my continued mission of furthering the Informix cause and "recapturing the Informix family" will ever stick on CDI. I have posted "good news" many times here, and man, does it get morphed into all kinds of things! Those of you that know me well know that I always speak directly and you can take my message at face value - with no hidden agenda or veiled message. As I've always said - there are many things we continue to work on to put Informix where it belongs with respect to clients and positioning within IBM. I continue to report positive information - of which I have ALOT. I'm not denying that there is still work to do. But I am very frustrated that we don't acknowledge "great news" when it is made known on CDI. Simply put - why do we have to twist "great news" into negative sentiment? I continue to travel nearly 100% of the time to Informix-only customers. My peers are currently overseas doing internal IBM training on, yes, Informix, to the SE and technical folks. the Informix team at IBM are very, very busy. Maybe some of you don't know me well, but I joined Informix in 1995, and have been focused on IDS and XPS...period. Exclusively. I intended to retire at Informix. Instead, now I intend to retire working on Informix products. So again - I'm like a little kid that gets all all excited about stuff like the forming of the CAC for Informix. I know there are others that share that enthusiasm. Would love to hear from them. Anyone wanna join me on this effort to positively influence the future of Informix? And I don't mean "think positive thoughts and all will be fine" - I mean recognize and move on the areas that need improvement, as we have been doing, but also acknowledge the positive steps that are being taken. This is the only way we will know if what we are doing is working. Thanks - Mark Scranton _______________________________________________ Informix-list mailing list Informix-list@iiug.org http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list