Re: Insider #65: Highlights: IIUG Board of 2006 elections,

> Who's Michelle? Is she pretty? a. Michelle Unger, VP of Information Management IOT Northeast Europe b. Certainly can be answered with yes. [Although as this is a matter of taste maybe not everyone would agree - as with some other topics discussed in in this list ... :-) ] Cheers, Martin -- owner-informix-list@iiug.org wrote on 29.11.2005 23:04:37: > <david@smooth1.co.uk> wrote in message > news:1133290953.257645.219780@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com... > > > > So what the fuck is IBM doing about marketing Informix? > > I quoted from an esteemed earlier post: "There ARE new wins. However I have > been asked not to mention where they > are. Contact your IBM representative." > > > And the big Euro 2006 (or whatever soccer event). IBM will have chips > > in the ball and players boots and realtime tracking > > all via an IDS database. Where is the publicity that IBM beat (who?) to > > this? > > World Cup. If you believe for a minute that Informix will be mentioned you > are naive. The tagline will be "Powered by IBM technology" (or maybe even > "Powered by IBM DB2 technology"!). > > > That was mentioned at the UK Usergroup meeting but we were not asked by > > Michelle to keep quiet about it! > > Who's Michelle? Is she pretty? > > > Can the IIUG ask IBM about this? Where is the publicity for IDS? > > See above. > > As mentioned by other correspondents, the fact you're being asked to keep > quiet about it shows you what IBM really wants in terms of Informix > publicity. That is, preach to the converted. Or should that be "remaining > unconverted" ..? sending to informix-list