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I'll tell what's her name that she is being reffered to on a daily basis!! 8-) (Sam will never come to any conference. London is long way for me to come. At least there is a chance that I will pick up something useful while being bored. Sam would just be bored.)

As for the bar, that sounds great. Thanks Stephen. I agree with John maybe we should just setup our own conference. We could even create the "TM1 Touring Workshop", otherwise known as a pub crawl.
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jim wood wrote:I agree with John maybe we should just setup our own conference. We could even create the "TM1 Touring Workshop", otherwise known as a pub crawl.
I have this horrible vision of a group of rowdies wearing blue and gold football scarves with "TM1" embroidered on them (unless you want to go for CognosAnIBMCompany grey instead) lurching into London bars belting out a drunken chorus of:

"Whyyyy-are-we-waaaaa-iting?
Ooooover-bloody-feeeeding,
oh why are we waaaai-ting,
the netttttt-work is sloooow..."

(Disclaimer: May not be understood by Eric or anyone else with limited exposure to UK Soccer, er, sorry, I mean FOOTBALL culture.)
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We will be wearing orange and blue. Obviously being UK football fans we will also be looking to fight anybody wearing either red an grey or blue only.

(Again apologies to anybody outside of the know football (I refuse to call it soccer as nobody who knows anything about it calls it that swear word) Universe.)
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(Disclaimer: May not be understood by Eric or anyone else with limited exposure to UK Soccer, er, sorry, I mean FOOTBALL culture.)
Suprise suprise, I do break the stereotypical American :shock: on this point. No translation needed. I am well aware of you football hooligans! I remember back in the day when Eric Cantona <Flip my collar up> was my idol playing a a Keeper for Man U was my goal in life.
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You build the site and I'll host it.
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jim wood wrote:We will be wearing orange and blue. Obviously being UK football fans we will also be looking to fight anybody wearing either red an grey or blue only.

(Again apologies to anybody outside of the know football (I refuse to call it soccer as nobody who knows anything about it calls it that swear word) Universe.)

Unfortunately some of us live in a land where football is only allowed to have one meaning and where the evil word soccer has to be used. Even worse is that no matter what you call it you dont get to watch it on TV. :(
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George I feel for you. Don't they show premier league games on ESPN?
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Hi,
Is there any US user from the forum who will go to "IBM On Demand 2008" at Las Vegas, on october 26-31.
There will be one session regarding TM1
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I am not attending becuase I would expect the TM1 session to be very basic, similar to the Cognos Forum. Heck I bet I even have the .ppt they will show.
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jim wood wrote:George I feel for you. Don't they show premier league games on ESPN?
They do play some games. We even had the fun of having all of Euro shown through ESPN. It is getting better unfortunately they are not devloping the US based leagues very well. So i take what I can get.
RobertMilli wrote:Hi,
Is there any US user from the forum who will go to "IBM On Demand 2008" at Las Vegas, on october 26-31.
There will be one session regarding TM1
My company does not plan on attending. After being disappointed by the Forum it is not worth the money for us. We did not even plan on going to the US based Road Show since the $300 to get to Atlanta will probably not be worth the effort.

Heck unless they improve the Forum for next year it is not worth the 1 hour drive to Orlando.
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From Jo Pusztai's interview....
TM1 isn't going anywhere
Eh? Did he really say that :D OK he didn't mean it like that I know :D
Pusztai hints that the TM1 brand itself might go away: "The TM1 identity might not actually carry forward. We still haven't decided about that, but the actual technology itself … that [is something] we will continue to carry forward" on a standalone basis," he asserts.
Well they've tinkered with "branding" before (iTM1 anybody?) but (even though nobody has ever heard of TM1 after 15 years of Applix's "marketing") they'd still be crazy to change it's name.

Any ideas for a new name?

Maybe they could call it "IBM Management Software for Consolidation and Review of Enterprise Wide Economic Data" or IM SCREWED for short
TM1 version 9.1 was a relatively mature product when Cognos picked it up last year. Nonetheless, Pusztai says, there's always room for improvement.
What can we say? :roll:
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I'd be interested to hear that confirmed here.
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RobertMilli wrote:Hi,
Is there any US user from the forum who will go to "IBM On Demand 2008" at Las Vegas, on october 26-31.
There will be one session regarding TM1
Good grief, I thought that THREE days for the Asia-Pacific one on the Gold Coast was bad. But SIX days??? In Lost Wages???

I wouldn't try that unless I was pulling a casino heist a-la Oceans 11.

I got an e-mail about the following event this morning though:

http://www.cognos.com/performance2008/index.html

There doesn't seem to be a lot on TM1, but I've signed up for it anyway. (a) It's free, (b) It's only one day, not more than half a week (c) it's not located an hour and 20 minutes away (by phone), and (d) I have to admit to being curious about seeing more information about integrating BI with TM1.
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Alan,
Come on over to the TM1 user show in London ( well almost) on 14 Oct, drinks afterwards at wherever. I am sure the UK TM1 community will be happy to sponsor your visit...
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stephen waters wrote:Alan,
Come on over to the TM1 user show in London ( well almost) on 14 Oct, drinks afterwards at wherever. I am sure the UK TM1 community will be happy to sponsor your visit...
LOL, very kind of you. An entire day each way on a 747! The Gold Coast looks next door by comparison.

Though I might drop in if I can rebuild this Mercury spacecraft and Atlas booster I'm working on. Hey, can someone hand me that spanner...? :D
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Hey, can someone hand me that spanner?
Sure, here is a wrench! Also if you need help putting in the flux capcitor let me know. :mrgreen:
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According to Wikpedia Spanner is a synonym of Wrench. Not the other way round: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanner

Just who invented this language anyway?
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That would be a mixture of the angles, saxons and celts.
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jim wood wrote:That would be a mixture of the angles, saxons and celts.
I.e. no Americans!

It's a spanner!!!!
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A wrench is something that is difficult to take, a burden if you will. (Or as us northerns say a "A rite bag of sh*te")
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According to Wikpedia Spanner is a synonym of Wrench. Not the other way round:
At the risk of appearing pedantic (never stopped me before has it?) , aren't synonyms by definition synonyms of each other :)
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