Re: DB2 Tech Conf in Vegas -- MIDRANGE-L

Al COMMON also did Reno, back in the S/38 days. A conference fit within Ballys and was very enjoyable and affordable. They even arranged for the post conference weekend special rate of $75 for the entire week end. I The other problem was since COMMON attendees were not casino people, the hotels really jacked up the rates to recover revenue.

COMDEX had horribly high hotel rates year after year in Vegas. And the city was one HUGE Traffic jam.

Vegas is  a great  city  for a conference

At 04:54 PM 9/14/2004, Al Barsa wrote:

I have been to two COMMONs in Las Vegas.  The first one was split between
two hotels diagonally across the strip from the other one, and you couldn't
move from hotel to hotel without someone trying to sell you a woman.  It
was novel on the first day, but was fairly grating by the end.

So COMMON bitched to the Hotel Bureau, the they moved us to a split between
the famous Tailhook Hilton, and the close by convention center.  That's
where no one (figuratively speaking) was gambling, so the rumor is that we
were uninvited.

Al

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Rick,

As I understand it, COMMON had a great time in Vegas (Al, may correct me
here ), but the problem is that COMMON attendees are those that actually
ATTEND the sessions and don't waste their time in the damn casino's...and
Vegas is more interested in people spending thier time in the casino's
than having a good conference... :)

Don in DC

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 rick.baird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>
> hey, a tech conference is a tech conference.  I don't care if it's for
> HP/3000 - if I get a free trip to vegas.
>
> Why? did common have a bad time in vegas?
>
> -------original message---------
> Rick,
>
> this is a DB2 - *NOT* iSeries tech conf...
>
> And I think it'll be a cold day in hell before you see COMMON back in
> Vegas...
>
> Don in DC
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