From: Kees denHartigh (kees@ee.ualberta.ca)
Date: Mon Jul 18 2005 - 19:09:57 EDT
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [HPADM] Re: RE: Re: HPWorld in SanFrancisco...CANCELLED]
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 15:56:30 -0700
From: Greg Cagle <gregc@gregcagle.com>
Organization: Miskatonic University
To: hpux-admin@DutchWorks.nl
References: <42DC1AA2.9030009@ece.ualberta.ca>
Jim - with all due respect, your little HP birdie couldn't be
more wrong. Perhaps they had an axe to grind. Hard to say.
I've been conference co-chair for the past four years, and
"corporate espionage" has nothing to do with what's happened
to Interex. This is a power play pure and simple by post-merger
HPQ; they want to own the messaging and the content for user
focused conferences, and an independent Interex that ran
an HP World that they couldn't control was a problem for
them. And the problem is now solved, at least for them.
Now, as users, you need to be asking yourself where you're
going to get unbiased content that isn't from the mouth of
the mother ship.
Again, "corporate espionage" was never an issue - but the
fact that it was mentioned is representative of the kind of
politics Interex has had to deal with in the past few years.
- Greg
Subject:
[HPADM] Re: RE: Re: HPWorld in SanFrancisco...CANCELLED
From:
Jim Turner <JTurner@hertz.com>
Date:
Mon, 18 Jul 2005 15:58:51 -0500
To:
"Dave T." <davidlt77@hotmail.com>
To:
"Dave T." <davidlt77@hotmail.com>
CC:
hpux-admin@DutchWorks.nl
My apologies for replying to the whole list ...
A little HP birdie passsed along to me the following: A good bit of the
really heavy-hitting sessions at HP World were meant for HP partners and
customers ONLY since they included sensitive (competitive) data about HP
products. There were unfortunately growing numbers of Sun, IBM, and EMC
employees who were attending HP World as "HP Customers" who were really
there to commit nothing more than corporate espionage. Since HP was
only a sponsor and Interex ran the show, there wasn't much HP could do
to guard against this ... other than start their own forum. Hence the
new HP Technology Forum 2005 in New Orleans.
Add that to the fact that Interex "membership" was north of $100 per
year, and I think it's safe to say that Interex screwed the pooch and
did themselves in.
Nice. Real nice.
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