RE: is there no IBM Technical Conf this year?

With all due respect:

UserBlue was a pseries/AIXL user group - actually SIG spinoff from SHARE. I
think SHARE refers to them as "projects".

UserBlue was AIXL/pSeries centric - not linux.

And yes, UserBlue and the pSeries conference are two separate entities, but
both are/were pSeries/AIXL centric.

UserBlue is not in business anymore, but there is a movement to start a AIXL
centric organization, outside of SHARE's "guidance". I'm not sure how
successful it has been. It was to have started organizing at the Tampa
SHARE and when I spoke with the leadership at the pSeries Tech conf last
summer, it really hadn't gotten off the ground much.

As for why it was a bust at the joint COMMON/UserBlue - that's for
discussion offlist or over a beer...needless to say, the former management
of UserBlue has some very strong feelings on how that conference went and
they're not all good.

Don in DC

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Subject: Re: is there no IBM Technical Conf this year?

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The last time that COMMON did a joint I and P thingie, (COMMON in
Chicago,
my senility thinks), it went over like a lead balloon.

</snip>

To be accurate, the event in Chicago that was co-located with COMMON was
called User Blue, a joint venture between COMMON and SHARE. It was a Linux
based event, not a System p event, and we did not have any AIX nor System p
sessions on the schedule. It did draw quite a few people, but under the
model we were working from at the time, it was not financially feasible to
continue. There is quite a difference between User Blue, and what used to
be the System p technical conference. To compare the two is not fair to
either of them.