I think U2 is about 4.5Million seats and when you add other PICK environments it comes to over 6 Million seats.
With IBM U2 Marketing they cannot advertise outside the DB2 brand. The U2UG can, to some extent. What the User Group can do strategically is what Dawn is talking about, whether it is media awareness directly by the group, or by differentiating U2 in a manner that IBM sees a benefit in advertising it differently such as lotus. Here is the chance for Users to make a difference Regards David Jordan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ross Ferris Sent: Friday, 18 June 2004 1:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [U2] .Net Provider for Unidata or Universe Marketing costs $. Unless U2UG is going to start charging membership fees, I don't see where this will be possible In terms of Cache size, IIRC they quote figures around 4,000,000 seats, so I would think they are on a par with U2 Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage an Evolution in Software Development >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-u2- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dawn M. Wolthuis >Sent: Friday, 18 June 2004 12:07 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: [U2] .Net Provider for Unidata or Universe > >Cache' blankets the Java market with ads as well. But I'd be very >curious how their market compares to the U2 market. There are other >MUMPs implementations, but not as many as PICK. I don't know if they >are "bigger" than U2 -- any guesses? I have no clue whether their >marketing strategy is working to grow them significantly beyond their >initial MUMPs base, but I'm definitely curious. > >In preparing the agenda for the Sept 19 meeting of the U2UG in Las >Vegas (to which everyone is invited!) we are planning to have >significant discussions about the topic of marketing U2 and the >underlying database. Even if IBM does not do that type of marketing, >potentially the U2UG could do some marketing in the future. Just a >thought -- all ideas are welcome. Cheers! --dawn > >Dawn M. Wolthuis >Tincat Group, Inc. >www.tincat-group.com > >Take and give some delight today. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.707 / Virus Database: 463 - Release Date: 15/06/2004 ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
