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- From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
- Subject: Re: SUG Summary?
- In-Reply-To: fgreco@shearson.com's message of Fri, 18 Dec 1992 22:09:11 GMT
- Message-ID: <BZS.92Dec21110912@world.std.com>
- Sender: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
- Organization: The World
- References: <1992Dec18.220911.7957@shearson.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:09:12 GMT
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- From: fgreco@shearson.com (Frank Greco)
- >Does anyone have any highlights/lowlights of the 1992 SUG conference?
-
- Nothing official, but I'll take a stab from a board member's
- informal perspective:
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- The overall conference attendence was the highest since 1990 (which
- was our highest ever), almost double 1991. That would be around 3500
- total attendees (this includes exhibition attendees) vs. around 4000
- in 1990 and 2000 (?) in 1991.
-
- There were 105 vendors exhibiting at the show, comments were very
- positive and many signed up for next year from the floor.
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- Sun was noticeably absent, something which infuriated at least some of
- the vendors on the floor. Sun did have a listening booth on the floor
- but not much else.
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- Sun cited budgetary constraints repeatedly as the reason, let's hope
- they can straighten out their financial problems and manage to make it
- 8 miles down the road next year. At the open board meeting SunPro
- claimed their budget was too tight to accept even the free booth SUG
- offered them, so things must be very tight over there!
-
- As usual I was dragged into so much SUG business I didn't get to many
- technical talks though I hear they went well. Rob Gingell and company
- from the SunOS group did their annual Developer's Panel. I know that
- was well attended (as usual) because around 9PM I got a frantic call
- that they had run out of beer, a problem which we quickly fixed.
-
- Perhaps someone can summarize Steve Bourne and Rob Kolstad's talks?
-
- Michael Tiemann of Cygnus, Inc and GCC/G++ fame gave a very
- interesting and entertaining lunchtime talk on how Cygnus has built a
- very successful business supporting "free" software and what that
- might mean to the industry and the rest of us.
-
- Your turn...
-
- --
- -Barry Shein
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