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Al,

Uh, anyone they can slap a badge on is included in that "total" number...

COMMON used to post the weekly totals by demographic group for the 13 or so
weeks leading up to the conference. Several of us had some REALLY GOOD
models of predicting the totally PAID (aka REAL REGISTRATION) numbers at
about 5 weeks out...and you're right the numbers are slipping, so COMMON
moved to thinking in terms of Dollars...since there's more or less of a
linear relationship and I doubt the relationships in the product mix have
changed, you could perhaps retro a model with some degree of accuracy, but
nobody really cares anymore... It's sad that COMMON hides the real numbers
especially trends before conference as people used to use those numbers to
figure out how much stuff to bring for conference in terms of expo etc...

You're right on IBM dropping the ball...but then, you have to ask yourself,
when looking at the longer term trends and avoidances, was it intentional or
not...and if it's not intentional any more, is it too late to change.

Don in DC

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In all seriousness, they are known to someone. COMMON announces total
attendance which includes:

o Paid Attendees
o Complementary attendees (such as myself by virtue of having "speaker
credits")
o Expo Vendors
o IBMers
o Spouses

I too would like to know the number of paid attendees, but it is kept a
secret. I suspect that System i classroom education (i.e.: COMMON and
various other venues) is dropping because of many factors:

o The platform is less strategic to the general public as IBM has been
milking profit off it for decades.
o EBCDIC computing is no longer taught in schools. When I graduated
from RPI (Troy, NY) in 1975, I was well schooled in S/360, and was in a
good position to evaluate the System/38 as strategic technology in 1978
when I tripped across it. RPI no longer teaches EBCDIC computing. When I
asked the dean of the school of science about that his precise words were:
"Why would you ever want to know about that, you'd have to be IBM to use
it."
o Today, the correct spelling of "strategic" is "w i n d o z e".

It's a sad state of affairs, and unfortunately IBM gets the blame.

Al

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LOL Al

That means they might be known to NO one!

Vern

At 01:09 PM 9/22/2007, you wrote:


The "paid attendance" numbers from Common are more widely known that the
location of Osama.

Al

Al Barsa, Jr.
Barsa Consulting Group, LLC

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