> marketing pukes Excuse me?
> wondered how they found all that information A number of companies develop or once developed directories of sites by hardware type (AS/400, Univac, S/390, DEC, whatever). If you started with a mailing list for an enterprise software type magazine and had the budget to call every unique shop represented, you could do a pretty good job (especially back in the days when people actually answered their telephones). Once you have the list, it is a somewhat simpler task to maintain it. Such a list could be sold to the marketing, um, people - that revenue might justify the expense involved. I'm a techie at heart but I used to own a software company. Without sales people, there would have been no sales, and no jobs for programmers. Marketing is more than sales. Part of marketing's job is to make sure that the techies are building what the customers want - not an entirely bad thing. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 11:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: MVS Licenses/MVS sites About 25 years ago, near the end of my days at Amdahl, I saw a directory of DP shops. It was something that the marketing pukes used to use. I never had a clue any such thing existed until then. When I looked through it, I found every sitet hat I could think of. At the time, I was surprised that such a thing existed and wondered how they found all that information. Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
