Anyone else read CRN ?

CRN - Computer Reseller News , a CMP publication... April 28th issue. IBM insert in the plastic wrap. Its a SWG advert. Interesting notes: 1) Information Management pillar had 5 products listed. The most of any brand ... 2) Note to Jerry K. Does it make sense to sell IDS as "Self Managing data server for mid-market business" and sell IBM DB2 Express as the " Ideal entry level server" ? I mean no offense, but if the selling point is price (you get what you pay for...) how does DB2 Express' TCO stack up to IDS over the first 5 years? 3) And of course there were obvious entries for DB2 (DB2 Express, BCE, DB2 Warehouse Starter Edition) Note: BCE is now Balanced Warehouse C1000 So the good news is that IDS is getting out there. The not so good news is that the position statement isn't a clear as it could be. Inside the edition, IBM Information Management beat out Oracle, Microsoft, MySQL in terms of customer (meaning the var) support. Its nice to see an IBM SWG advertisement. But it would be nice to see more mention of IDS. The press say (DB2 and their other Information products, not mentioning IDS by name....) But hey! What do I know? Client Reps, and SSRs run with DB2 first, if at all. After all, they'd rather sell IGS,Oracle/DB2, and Websphere and capture more $$$ than sell a superior product that doesn't require as much hand holding... ;-) -G PS. Where's those TPC.org benchmarks? Any more DB2 TPC-C benchmarks coming out? :-P _________________________________________________________________ E-mail for the greater good. Join the i’m Initiative from Microsoft. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?source=EML_WL_ GreaterGood