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Tue, 03 Jun 2008

RSDC day 1

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Breakfast isn't covered under NDA, so here goes. The group arrived around 7:30 at the hotel for breakfast, kinda woke up and wandered into the opening session. They had dancers (I think) dressed like the super heroes from the night before. IBM claimed 3500+ attendees, and this year I don't think they lied (well not as much as they usually do). They had the same lame comic this year, luckily his role was limited.

Seems this year the word to wear out is "Collaboration", they must have used this word a hundred times at the Partner meeting and it was on every 3rd slide at the opening session.

After the opening, we all went to the CM opening session, which about 50% of the conference did as well, they had us jammed into a smaller room (again, they made this mistake last year). They had to ask all the IBM folks to leave or to stand up, to make room for the attendees. The over all message was more new stuff to come, mostly tieing all the products into JAZZ.

After these sessions we all went our different ways. I helped Beth set up the booth then headed to a session. At 5pm the expo center opened up and I spent most of my time wandering around talking to folks. Met the usual crowd and a ton of new folks. Beth and group had the booth covered, our model scanned almost 600 people in the 3 hours the booth was open.

After the expo closed at 8:00 IBM had a concert, the Wallflowers, on the third floor. We stayed for most of that, then headed back to the condos, where I dropped asleep as soon as I hit the bed.

Today will be another long one, our party ends around midnight..

Posted at: 5:12 am

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