Re: OT:Is IBM going to be marketing Informix

Posted in 2004

Mark D. Stock — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 23:00:53 +0100 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Rob Vorbroker wrote: > I believe that the IIUG did a survey that showed just > this FACT within weeks of the IBM buyout announcement. > Hopefully someone at IBM read the results of that > survey. So only sat in their in-tray for 3 years then. :-O Cheers, -- Mark. +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ | Mark D. Stock mailto:mdstock@MydasSolutions.com |//////// /| | http://MydasSolutions.com |///// / //| | +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| | |We value your comments, which have |/// / ////| | |been recorded and automatically |// / /////| | |emailed back to us for our records.|/ ////////| +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+ sending to informix-list

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Captain Pedantic — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 08:22:42 +0100 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

"Mark D. Stock" <mdstock@MydasSolutions.com> wrote in message news:ciqg1n$61s$1@news.xmission.com... > > Rob Vorbroker wrote: > > I believe that the IIUG did a survey that showed just > > this FACT within weeks of the IBM buyout announcement. > > Hopefully someone at IBM read the results of that > > survey. > > So only sat in their in-tray for 3 years then. :-O Now you're just being faceitious. What actually happened was that the survey was sent to the External Affiars Executive (Americas) who passed a copy on to the VP of Data Marketing (Americas) but, also, because she had a dotted line to him, the WorldwideChannel manager (Data). He decided to pass it on by completing in triplicate the Market Intelligence Programme Dissemination form, but the intranet form could not be completed as it couldn't be identified how the Internal/External box should be completed. So an internal task force was set up to examine the question. A year later, when the programme details were eventually completed there was a delay in finding the requisite 3 WW Execs, two region sponsors, and the director of a marmalade factory to approve it. Eventually the report hit of the desk of WW VP Data Management Sales, who passed it on to the WW VP Data Management Marketing, who passed it on to the WW .... You get the idea.

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Data Goob — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 07:37:43 -0400 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Well at least they were moving on it. :o) Captain Pedantic wrote: > "Mark D. Stock" <mdstock@MydasSolutions.com> wrote in message > news:ciqg1n$61s$1@news.xmission.com... > >>Rob Vorbroker wrote: >> >>>I believe that the IIUG did a survey that showed just >>>this FACT within weeks of the IBM buyout announcement. >>> Hopefully someone at IBM read the results of that >>>survey. >> >>So only sat in their in-tray for 3 years then. :-O > > > Now you're just being faceitious. What actually happened was that the > survey was sent to the External Affiars Executive (Americas) who passed a > copy on to the VP of Data Marketing (Americas) but, also, because she had a > dotted line to him, the WorldwideChannel manager (Data). He decided to pass > it on by completing in triplicate the Market Intelligence Programme > Dissemination form, but the intranet form could not be completed as it > couldn't be identified how the Internal/External box should be completed. > So an internal task force was set up to examine the question. A year later, > when the programme details were eventually completed there was a delay in > finding the requisite 3 WW Execs, two region sponsors, and the director of a > marmalade factory to approve it. Eventually the report hit of the desk of > WW VP Data Management Sales, who passed it on to the WW VP Data Management > Marketing, who passed it on to the WW .... > > You get the idea. > >