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Once again I'm leaving a conference with my head aching from the firehose of information I've been fed by vendors and my feet are just generally aching. It would be hard to tell from the crowd at VMworld that we're in the middle of a recession as the show floor seemed busy from start to end.
Howard Marks
September 04, 2009

While I'm one of the few tech journalists that misses COMDEX and the variety of products and technologies that were on display there, I accept that a vendor conference isn't the same as a trade show. While both give Blue Cat an excuse to put their poor booth models in schoolgirl outfits or spandex cat suits, vendor conferences like VMworld or Microsoft's TechEd should be about the vendors teaching users how to get the most out of their products at the sessions. Vendors using such a venue to poach customers away from the sponsor, as Microsoft did in Vegas last year to some extent, are just being d??class??.

All grumbles aside, I'm glad I came to VMworld, as are almost all the attendees I've spoken to.  Next year, VMware should consider expanding into Moscone West to have more larger session spaces, but even if they don't, I'll be back.

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