FP was not at SCOForum... why not?

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2005, John Esak wrote:
>
>Does anyone know why FP Technologies was not at SCOForum?  Bud had said in
>the last FP Room meeting that they would be there, showing the biometric
>stuff.
>
>We sent Rick out to the forum, and he said they were listed in the
>"neighborhood" stuff, but their table was empty. BackupEDGE and FacetCorp
>were there, but no FP Tech. What happened?

I expect that FP didn't see an economic incentive to attend.  Trade shows
are often an expensive waste of time and effort under the best of
circumstances, and SCO is far from the best of circumstances today.

I went to almost all the SCO Fora at Santa Cruz except for the first one,
but I haven't gone since they moved to Vegas.  If I'm going to take most of
a week off working, it's going to be to go to an event that is relevant to
the majority of my business (and I can count the number of my customers
still running OpenServer on the fingers of one hand).

FWIW (Bob Stockler might be interested), I finally traded in my 1990 Subaru
Legacy wagon today, the one we escaped from the parking lot overland in,
for a new Legacy wagon.  The old one had been to almost as many SCO Fora as
I have.  When I started driving the 1990, we were running SCO Xenix, and it
hauled machines running SCO OpenDesktop 2.0 through OpenServer 5.0.6a.  The
2005 Subaru probably has more computers in it than I have in my business
here.

Bill
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