Hi, Rabi:
 
I thoroughly enjoyed reading your posting (marked with ">" below)
commenting on my previous posting (marked with ">>" below) regarding the
ticketless airline system.
 
>...On a minor note it is being
>inducted into the Smithsonian for an innovative use of software.
 
Minor?   What do you mean "minor"?  This is major, MAJOR,  M A J O R !   Is
it public knowledge or is it a state secret?   Where do we send cards and
flowers?  Congratulations.  That's the least The Smithsoniam could do,
indeed.
 
 
 
>> Dave is not sleeping on his laurels either.  Measure Magazine says:
>>
>> "He's developing an airline reservation system that will compete with the
>> Sabre Airline System, the longtime industry standard owned by American
>> Airlines.  It could be up and running in the next six months."
>>
>
>That us!  We also are selling our ticketless reservation systems to other
>airlines using HP3000s.  And at the end of February we have another
>industry first.  I will let you know what it is at the time it is announced.
 
Good for you and your colleagues!  There is nothing better than industry firsts.
 
I'm sure all of us at HP3000-L (as well as everyone in the world, inside
and outside of the HP3000 community) are waiting for your announcement.
Fortunately for us (but unfortunately for you, deadline-wise), February has
only 29 days this year   :-)
 
 
 
>> Oh, well.  I digress...   I hope the point is clear.  In this era of
>> computer debacles, the story of Dave Evans and his successful HP3000-based
>> system MUST be told to as wide an audience as possible.  I have done my
>> best.  But I cannot do it alone.  Larger forces must exercise their
>> muscles.
>
>We are working on it.  We also just got award "Best In Class" channel partner.
 
Does anyone know about this?  At the risk of boring you, let me repeat myself:
 
Is it public knowledge or is it a state secret?   Where do we send cards
and flowers?  Congratulations.
 
 
 
>HP marketing kinda of reminds me of a qoute from Cognos's CEO we need to
>stop doing stealh marketing.
 
Indeed.  Get as big a radar presence as you can.  To put my efforts where
my mouth is, here is a public offer to Dave Evans and his group:
 
My trusty Macintosh graphics-design system is on standby to produce an
advertisement on the fourth cover of Interact Magazine, featuring your work
(with your input and total approval and at no cost to you, of course, as
is the case with all the Adager contributions to the HP3000 community).  I
wish I could publish it also on the fourth cover of Forbes Magazine, but my
budget is not in that league.  (Can we take collections, though?  We would
at least save the Madison-Avenue fees  :-)
 
Some people (the defeatists, who just go along with "whatever the industry
is doing" even if it's obviously stupid) laugh at these thoughts, which are
based on things that obviously work.  Fortunately, neither Dave Evans nor
Alfredo Rego are defeatists.  They are proven doers.  So, getting the word
out is a piece of cake.
 
Happy baking!  (This is an inside reference.  For those of you who might
not get it, please study my paper, "The year of the pies."  I'll put this
paper on Adager's Web site next week, when I return to Sun Valley from
California.  For now, I have more pressing things to do: I'm having a
superb celebration dinner with a nice vintage bottle of wine in Palo Alto.
I'll cheer for the HP3000 and for the outstanding people, such as Dave
Evans, who continue to make it the database server of choice.)
 
 
Bon appetit!
 
 
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