On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 13:12 -0500, Sebastian, Norma J. wrote:
> Yes, you are right, he's asking about public blitz.
> But I have a question.... .does IBM really blitz that way? Yes, they
> market "information on demand" .... I see the commercials and print
> ads..... but I don't know if I can say I specifically see television
> commercials about DB2 outside of tech related stuff.
> So are we asking for something for informix that IBM just doesn't do in
> general?
> .... I will duck for the tomatoe throwing now....

Exactly. Do I know when a new release of Oracle comes out.... without
going to look? No. There is a tiny tiny percentage of the 'public'
that even knows what an RDBMS is; a public blitz would be pointless
waste of money.

IBM *DID* do a public blitz for LINUX, at least in the USA. But
primarily to get suits to connect the term "LINUX" with IBM ( = "Serious
stuff"). Notice they didn't include anything specific in that blitz;
just "LINUX is good". That is probably as deep and as specific as a
"public blitz" can go.

This is just another excuse for people who like to bitch to bitch.

That and the product has been out like a week?