Re: Informix conference
FYI - The presentations from the IDUG/IIUG 2006 Tampa conference are available for download off the IIUG website in the members area. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hamilton, Jerry" <hamiltoj@fleishman.com> To: <doubleecho@your.com>; <informix-list@iiug.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 9:46 AM Subject: RE: Informix conference > Double E. > > I agree. I loved those electronic updates. In the past, the IIUG spent > a lot of time creating and passing along electronic updates from various > conferences. This year, I saw every single board member working the > whole conference. Many of them did presentations, coordinated repeat > sessions, attended b!tch sessions with IBM, attended product development > sessions with IBM and spent some board face time with each other. The > Conference Planning Committee was also buried with conference > activities. Add to that, the registration booth made a handful of > mistakes during attendee check-in time adding even more pressure for the > board members and volunteers. > > Also, I know my days started at 7am and didn't end until almost 8 > o'clock most nights. Go to Dinner at 8:30?!?!?! > > There just wasn't a lot of free time. > > Maybe next year, or better yet, long live "The Informix Forum"!! It is > the best 2 day technical seminar/conference you can attend hosted by the > Washington, D.C. user group. Plan on attending it this winter, December > 8th and 9th. > > -----Original Message----- > From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org > [mailto:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Double Echo > Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 8:55 AM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Re: Informix conference > > Obnoxio The Clown wrote: >> Double Echo said: >>> IBM really needs to get outside the box and look at their market, and > >>> look at what kind of message they are _really saying_, not what they >>> insist is the message. It looks today like IBM wants to argue with >>> customers but not really offer what the customer wants. Strangely >>> familiar... >> >> You're not as dumb as you look. :o) >> >> IBM has the worst case of NIH Syndrome I've ever, EVER seen. It's a >> pure Dilbert scenario: some numbnuts lickspittle reworks some old IBM >> idea with new buzzwords and cons senior management that this is the >> way forward. For the next year, then, all IBM does is put forward some > >> tired old idea dressed up in new buzzwords and calls it "innovation". >> >> I've given up trying to do business with them, they have their own >> agenda (whether it's what the market wants is entirely irrelevant, >> "don't you know who we are?") and a sufficiently large base of dumb >> corporate drones that will just follow the "blue route" blindly over a > cliff. >> > > Not to change the subject, but isn't it curious that there was no c.d.i. > coverage of the last conference? > > Even more curious, with the plethora of electronic tools and internet > opportunities that basically could be had for the cost of the bandwidth, > there have been no pictures, no video, no audio, no nothin, from either > the illustrious IIUG or Informix-et-al or IBM. This is even more > evidence that there is no intention of Informix being relevant in the > future. > > What a waste of a marketing opportunity. Completely shit. > > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list > >