Quote Originally Posted by Kilted KT
My bills get paid by working for a global computer service outsourcing firm called EDS ( competitor of IBM global services ) . . .
I was once on the account team for the other side of that competitive relationship . . . it's interesting trying to sell to a customer who's also a competitor!

I still work for that company (greetings, Magnus!!!) . . . and some of you in IT may be familiar with its mainframe relational database ending in "2". I work on the sales and marketing side, but assist the development lab give birth to its new releases, aka help run beta programs. It's fun to play with the new toys!

I go to work kilted 2-3 days a week. Most of the time I'm in the office, but I am starting to wear the kilt sometimes when I visit customers or do presentations for users groups. In our last release, there were major changes in how we deal with character data and represent it internally, and the context could make a difference in how a particular character was interpretted. I came up with (what I thought was) a brilliant visual example . . . "kilt" in Scotland, with pictures of a great kilt, casual kilt, PC outfit, vs. "kilt" in Seattle with pictures of UKs . . . the message being that the context of a word can change the impression that people get. At least it gave me an "excuse" to wear the kilt while presenting. (I promise that I was purely interested in the educational aspect! :rolleyes: )

At the conference last month where I met Verlyn, I was kilted most of the week. I recognized one of my customers, and greeted him. He then recognized me, as I had worn the kilt doing that presentation at his shop a year earlier.

I wore a kilt yesterday for Tartan Day, and was mildly disappointed that no one said anything.

Regards,

Mark