Re: Does anyone read the e-mails from [mailto:db2@news.db2mag.com]
On Aug 1, 5:09 pm, Fernando Nunes <domusonl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > > On Jul 31, 9:07 pm, Fernando Nunes <s...@onlinedomus.net> wrote: > >> Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > >>> On Jul 30, 1:42 pm, Fernando Nunes <domusonl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>> I always had the idea that in Portugal half of us are doing the wrong thing and > >>>> the other half is criticizing the first half (and that these halves were > >>>> interchanging). > >>> Sounds like a personal problem to me. ;-) > >>>> I now see that this is not a country specific issue... The main difference here > >>>> is that the halves seem static... > >>> LOL... Well this is what you get when you globalize the workforce. > >>> I mean some places are behind the times. Like watching OTC rant about > >>> setting up a disaster recovery plan. > >>> I haven't had to do one since '96 for a client. But then I was in > >>> charge of their midrange systems. > >>> Then it was a hot topic in '01, and now again in '08? At least in the > >>> UK. I guess the EU is catching up to us paranoid yanks. ;-) > >>>> I will not contradict you in your main point: IBM database magazine still has > >>>> mostly DB2 content. But you can find IDS, IMS, DB2 in Z/OS, Data Studio etc. in > >>>> there... > >>> Oh gee wilikers mr. wizard I feel so great full that such a luminary > >>> like yourself concedes the point of my post. > >>> DB2 means DB2 on AS/400 aka i-Series, DB2 on OS-390/zOS and even Linux > >>> on the mainframe . > >>> I'm shocked that you're interpreting DB2 to mean just distributed. Tsk > >>> Tsk. Didn't you get Janet's memo that DB2 on the mainframe and as400 > >>> is *practically* the same product that runs in the distributed > >>> environment? (That was put out circa 2001-2002 time frame. I was sure > >>> that the news would have hit EMEA by now! > >>> (Note the sarcasm) > >>> IMS? Wow. I thought Kim Skarda's group got all dem IMS folks to > >>> convert to DB2... ;-) (Again, Note the sarcasm and its an inside joke) > >>> What's really interesting junior is that I could care less what you > >>> think or how you respond. > >> Excuse my limited English... "Junior" is an American term to refer to the ones > >> who don't agree with you or just show that you're wrong? > > > Its a slag term to mean youth. And how exactly did you prove me wrong? > > You conceded to the point of the article that 80% of the highlighted > > articles are on DB2 and not IDS. > > Just "youth"? Oh.. Thanks...I'll get over it... as time passes by... > > > You don't have an excuse for not writing an article. Unless of course > > you're too busy getting cross certified on DB2 so you can advance your > > band rating. > > Where do you want me to publish an article? And what would be the advantage of > writing there instead of my usual spot? > How do people find info these days? > That's actually an honest and good question. You have two issues. 1) Who's going to accept your article to publish 2) Who's going to give you the most non-current IDS customer eyes? (Outside of Oracle's DBA magazine of course. ;-) The point I've been trying to make, much to IBM's dismay is that you need to publish in *other* than IBM centric mags/sites so that you can get on the *radar* of non-ids DBAs. You get 1000 new set of eyes looking at IDS, you might get 2 new customers. That doesn't seem like much but if you're a good writer, in the right mag, you never know... And if you do this enough times... ;-)