I'm back in the office from a partner event held by DNS, our Channel Distributor Partner in Hungary. We have a new software sales rep who used to work for IBM and has a very good understanding of how the software business and market works in this region. This was the first time I saw him give a presentation and he was really impressive. He had 14 slides but talked over an hour describing Sun's strategy, giving many hints on why these things are happening.
I gave a presentation on Java Desktop System with a little demo of JDS Configuration Manager (also known as APOC). Conf. Manager is pretty impressive stuff. Too bad most of the feedback was about the lack of Hungarian localization of JDS and StarOffice. I cannot blame them - I'm trying to do my best to convince people in product marketing to do Hungarian localizations, but it looks like a lone presales engineer/ps consultant located in a post-communist central european EU member country doesn't have the weight to achieve much success (on the other hand this is not entirely true but I don't think I'm allowed to talk about this just yet:).
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