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July 30, 2007
Let's Not Forget Our International System i Friends. . .
Yesterday we published a news story noting the roles of COMMON and User Groups as influencers to IBM — sometimes we System i aficionados forget and think IBM makes all of its System i decisions in a Big Blue vacuum, and that's just not the case. IBM uses a healthy dose of customer opinion and "requirements" to figure out how to deliver new technology and pricing programs . . . often filtered by User Groups such as COMMON.
Others, such as the somewhat exclusive LUG, no doubt have had roles to play. Of course, there's our international-based COMMON friends to remember as well — System i enthusiasts live and work around the globe! What was I thinking?
Fortunately, we received a quick e-mail from our friends at COMMON Europe, which I'm happy to share here:
Congratulations for the beautiful article "COMMON's Advocay Pillar Supports IBM" by Chris Maxcer that emphasizes the importance of user groups. Being a long-standing COMMON hand, I felt proud reading it.This short message is not to undermine our sister organization's statements but just to keep the records straight. There are two COMMON Advisory Councils, one in Europe (CEAC) and another in America (CAAC). In fact, the current edition, the earlier was in the nineties, initiated in Europe, and the idea was carried over to North America. The collective efforts brought PHP as well as IP Telephony to the System i, and MySQL is the recent addition to that list.
Thanks and regards,
Ranga (Shrirang U.) Deshpande,
COMMON Europe BoD,
On behalf of Olga Miralles i Mulleras, President, COMMON Europe (on holidays for the moment)
Posted by cmaxcer at July 30, 2007 5:34 PM
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