A while back a group of us were asked for innovative ideas for demonstrating Ingres at Ca World 2007. One of mine was to have Ingres ported and run on the Sony Playstation 3. It’s relatively new, fairly exclusive, quite stylish and equipped to dual-boot. Some of the challenges was to persuade some one to buy a unit and then relinquish control of it for platform testing. Luckily we found a willing victim/donor; unfortunately the machine was on the network in an American office time slicing between game play was mildly inconvenient but the port went quickly. On the show floor at Ca World the demo went down a storm and as I’ve mentioned before we got to play games during show hours.
There have been varying reactions to the demonstration most common would be “Why would you do that?” and then “you managed to fit Ingres, a Java runtime environment, an Eclipse workbench and a demonstration application in how much memory?”
The truth is you don’t get innovation without exploring and trying to push the boundaries. Some companies, like Google, positively encourage it. Designers from all disciplines show their latest ranges or concept prototypes.
Got any more suggestions or ideas?
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