RE: IDS Next Version - features wanted.

-----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Data Goob Sent: 01 June 2005 02:15 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: IDS Next Version - features wanted. Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > I must agree. It's extremely rare in any substantial organisation that the > management will buy what the people at the coal face want. "Strategic > decisions" are taken on the golf course and in the fancy restaurants. >Yeah, I've been to many of those little meetings. They go like this: > >"so what's going on with your new database selection?" > >"my tech guys are telling me to go with _____ for our xyz project. We're >stuck with ___ until we can migrate off of it to ___ or maybe ___." > >Most managers aren't technical, so the smart ones talk to the techs. >If yours aren't talking to the techs, maybe they're just not talking >to YOU, but most managers and execs get the tech buzz from somewhere >to help them make a decision. Most of the owners of companies I work >with also talk to their buddies at the peer level. They don't just >talk to their own people. Ads aimed at executives work, there's no >doubt, but the exec doesn't go by fluff ads when their money is on >the line. But don't take my word for it, look at the competition and >how they advertise. Oracle is on a MAJOR marketing drive here in SA - posters and billboards all over the place - and invites to everything they have - kind of sad ... sending to informix-list