| Re: New IDLDE [message #52968 is a reply to message #52877] |
Fri, 09 March 2007 11:02   |
Kenneth Bowman
Messages: 86
Registered: November 2006
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In article <1173460499.305312.95470@c51g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
"Paul Sommer" <psommer@ittvis.com> wrote:
> Hi Ken,
>
> I have to pipe in here as I have driven activity into the Private
> Portals to support users just like you :-) Our recent motivation has
> been to try and do a better job creating and actively participating in
> the user community. The Portal concept is a small step in this
> direction. You may ask why we don't just push people to the
> newsgroup. We do. However, in cases like Raytheon, they have a lot
> of proprietary IDL content they also want to share with their internal
> teams. For example, one group has a bunch of really useful and
> powerful IDL code that an adjacent program could use. So, we set up a
> private portal for them with forum capability, links to relevant
> content that relates to their work and host their code contributions
> via secure protocols to protect their IP. We then assign both an
> internal moderator, or champion and an ITT Vis Sales Engineer to
> address forum questions regarding IDL, etc.
>
> In essence, we are trying to recreate the nirvana you all seem to
> experience here for folks that are firewalled. Again, we continue to
> point new contacts to this group as well and I hope to have a more
> public link to this group from the InfoNET in the future. As I told
> David in a recent meeting, the InfoNET is in its infancy and we really
> hope to do a better job of recognizing community in all forms - our
> internal engineering forums, our public ITT Visual Information
> Solutions forum, this news group, private portals, user group
> meetings, etc. So, do not fear...we definitely don't want to give you
> the impression that only the big accounts matter. It's the entire
> community that makes our software successful.
>
> Best regards,
> Paul
> ___________________________________
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> Paul M. Sommer
> Lead Technical Sales Engineer
> ITT
> Visual Information Solutions
> psommer@ittvis.com
> Direct Line: 303-402-4679
> http://www.ittvis.com
Hi Paul,
I wasn't criticizing the idea of private user forums. I can see that it
would be a good idea for some of your customers.
Cheers, Ken
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