Oh but Vegas is always a good time, and this was no exception.\u00c2\u00a0 Now that I’ve recovered from heavy partying by night and long floor walking by day I think I’ll update as to the happenings that went on.<\/p>\n
First I got in on Sunday (with plans to leave Tue morning) only to find that the actual exhibition hall would not even be open until Tuesday @ 10am so needless to say that threw a bit of a monkey wrench in my plans.\u00c2\u00a0 Thankfully SWA doesn’t suck like most airlines and graciously (and free of charge) moved my flight to later Tuesday evening so that I could walk the exhibition floor.<\/p>\n
Monday was a day where I had been hooked up with a free seminar pass and had chosen to go to the ‘Building a Enterprise Network Architecture’ which turned out to be a bunch of closed source consultants talking Micro$oft products and how awesome AT&T is.\u00c2\u00a0 So it wasn’t much help other than spying on what other people are having challenges with (M$ Server 2k8).<\/p>\n
The exhibition hall yielded a welcoming surprise, for the first time that I can remember, Cisco was *NOT* the first booth.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead it was Foundry Networks!! Believing in open standards and disagreeing with proprietary protocols I was very very excited to see this.\u00c2\u00a0 Polycom got it right by bringing women from their Danish office to work their booth.<\/p>\n
However the highlight to my visit was the incredibly amusing Micro$oft banners stating that Micro$oft was ‘Interoperability by Design’ *cough* yea… right… I guess if you say it.. it must be true?<\/p>\n
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Oh but Vegas is always a good time, and this was no exception.\u00c2\u00a0 Now that I’ve recovered from heavy partying by night and long floor walking by day I think I’ll update as to the happenings that went on. First … Continue reading