Interex and HP World dead - HP Happy
It's no surprise that many highups at HP are happy with the demise of Interex, an HP User Group, and HP World. Interex apparently escorted their employees to the door and closed forever last Friday, hence canceling HP World.
We reported it first here, scooping the Mainstream Media, and thereby pretending to be very cool! :) See here and here for details.
HP did not have control of HP World. They sponsor the competing HP Technology Forum, which they entirely control. Interex was invited to participate, but declined. Some other HP User groups decided to participate in the HP Technology Forum, for example Encompass and OpenView Forum International.
The forth large HP User's group, ITUG, mainly customers of former Tandem Computers, plans to hold its annual ITUG Summit conference in San Jose in October and I wish them success.
There were basically too many HP user groups and conferences. There still may be too many. Of course HP wished they had one user group, preferably under their umbrella, and one conference, under their control. That is only natural.
Encompass "will reach out to them," offering a home for Interex users, "eventually," said the president of Encompass, Kristie Browder. HP has offered registered HP World users complimentary passes to their HP Technology Forum (call 877-216 5400 for info). No offense HP, but I'm not going.
Disclaimer: I used to work fulltime for HP, and have consulted for them since. I wish them, and their conference, well. If I didn't you'd be reading about it here!
We reported it first here, scooping the Mainstream Media, and thereby pretending to be very cool! :) See here and here for details.
HP did not have control of HP World. They sponsor the competing HP Technology Forum, which they entirely control. Interex was invited to participate, but declined. Some other HP User groups decided to participate in the HP Technology Forum, for example Encompass and OpenView Forum International.
The forth large HP User's group, ITUG, mainly customers of former Tandem Computers, plans to hold its annual ITUG Summit conference in San Jose in October and I wish them success.
There were basically too many HP user groups and conferences. There still may be too many. Of course HP wished they had one user group, preferably under their umbrella, and one conference, under their control. That is only natural.
Encompass "will reach out to them," offering a home for Interex users, "eventually," said the president of Encompass, Kristie Browder. HP has offered registered HP World users complimentary passes to their HP Technology Forum (call 877-216 5400 for info). No offense HP, but I'm not going.
Disclaimer: I used to work fulltime for HP, and have consulted for them since. I wish them, and their conference, well. If I didn't you'd be reading about it here!
posted by Ted Demopoulos at 7:03 AM
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