FP was not at SCOForum... why not?

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Bill Campbell propounded (on Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 04:00:41PM -0700):
| 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.

Well, they must have at one point intended to appear, otherwise they
would not have been listed as a sponsoring vendor in the program booklet
and on one of the slides shown in the general Session, nor shown on the
booth diagram in the program booklet.

| 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).

Have you run OpenServer 6.0.0?

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JP