Re: Linux Advocacy Committee: Was:(Fwd) More News From San Francisco

DBA Resources wrote: > > Tim Schaefer <tschaefe@mindspring.com> wrote: > > > Informix has endorsed direct-marketing, i.e. Dell, by having Mr. Dell > > show up as a speaker at the conference, and Phil mentioning it in his > > speech. Take a look at Dells' internet site, and then see the vision. > > I firmly believe a direct-marketing channel for Informix on Linux, and > > ALL Informix products will be a direction worth considering. > > Just thought I would throw my $.02 in. I don't think you should read anything > into the fact that Dell spoke at the conference. Scott Adams spoke too so > does that mean Informix wants everyone to become cartoonists? He (Dell) spoke > to provide a view of the computer business from someone who has made it happen. > I am tremedously interested in Dells' marketing model as a possibility for Linux. The point simply and obviously stated is: Let's look at marketing models that work, and apply some creativity and CONSTRUCTIVE input to this discussion, and above all not trivialize this effort. I will not go quietly into the night on this one. > What needs to happen, as far as the linux question is concerned, is a quiet, > business-oriented discussion of the issues involved--most likely off-line from > this group. You all know who the major players are that want Informix on > Linux, contact them and work it out -- posting periodic updates to the list > so those of us lurking can keep track. > Agreed. It's important to make sure no one out there in c.d.i. who wants to participate in this off-line is excluded. So if you're interested, contact me. > What Informix wants and needs to see is the business value and proposition of > porting to Linux. Where are the *real* applications anticipated to be? How > many licenses could be *sold* not given away and at what price? Create a > support model as well. It might be good to query the Linux community to see > if they would be willing to pay for a database as robust as ODS as a first > step. > We had much discussion that went into Linux last month, but it's clear to me we have to start at the beginning with educating the right Informix people about Linux. The good news is they are willing to learn and hopefully get this done. The top of this thread started with issues we've already been through, and trivialized the benefits of this past conference. Informix people have risen to the occasion, and I am extremely proud of them for this. On that note I will be as vocal about supporting them as well. Something that we talked about at the conference are the SIGs (Special Interest Groups) that can be formed. Maybe you or Walt can provide me and c.d.i. readers with some direction in this, and indeed take it off-line, into a SIG. How does this work, is there a list-serv for this, etc. > Keep the IIUG and the IUGLC involved along the way and let both help refine > the work in process. > You know I will. :-) (I'll defer the cartoons for later) Tim > Just my opinion. > > Carlton > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Carlton Doe "It's not *over* until I win!" > DBA Resources, Inc. -- Les Brown > Salt Lake City, UT > > carlton@iiug.org http://www.iiug.org > dbaresrc@xmission.com http://www.xmission.com/~dbaresrc > carlton@errin.dbaresrc.com > > PGP key: finger -l dbaresrc@xmission.com -- Tim Schaefer \\\\|// tschaefe@mindspring.com 6 6 --------------------oOOo---( )---o00o--------- http://www.inxutil.com ==============================================