Short Takes: Talking conferences
By SD Times News Team
August 15, 2008 —
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Oh the conferences you'll go!
I love conferences. They’re fun to go to; as I write this, I’m making my plans for LinuxWorld. To you, of course, LinuxWorld is last week’s news. Conferences are the best place to catch up with colleagues and friends, see the newest technology and unravel the latest buzzwords. Oh, yeah, and also watch a keynote and take some technical classes.
While I attend many conferences each year, a big part of my job is involved with creating new events. On page 32, you can read about our brand-new SharePoint Technology Conference, taking place from Jan. 26 to 28 near San Francisco International Airport. That’s an exciting new project being spearheaded by David Rubinstein, former editor of SD Times, now heading up our sister publication, Systems Management News. We hope you can make it to SPTechCon.
Another of our conferences is EclipseWorld, a conference for Java developers. EclipseWorld will be Oct. 28 to 30 in Reston, Va. We just confirmed the keynote speaker: Ivar Jacobson, the computer scientist perhaps best known for his work in modeling and requirements, and who is one of the Three Amigos behind the Uniform Modeling Language.
Before either of those events, of course, there’s the Software Performance Conference, Sept. 24 to 26 in Boston. STPCon Fall is our biggest conference, and this year it’s kicked off by software testing guru James Bach. Hope to see you there!
Alan Zeichick
Cool it, bloggers
So Kevin Johnson is leaving Microsoft. The blogosphere is atwitter (no pun intended) with speculation that he was made to fall on his sword for failing to consummate a deal with Yahoo. Some bloggers may be too clueless to know that they’re clueless.
Microsoft veterans have been departing the company in a steady succession since Jim Allchin retired in January 2007 after 17 years with the company. Note to the blogosphere: These people have made their millions and are moving on. Maybe Johnson was disappointed that he would not have a larger fiefdom—who knows? I sure don’t, and I doubt the bloggers do.
David Worthington
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