ITUG 2010

ITUG 2010 (also called The Connect NonStop Symposium and Expo) opened with an amazing dinner hosted by XYPRO at Scotts seafood restaurant in San Jose.  Among the 130+ attendees was a real  cross-section of the HP NonStop community. Aussies, South Africans, South Americans, Asians, and Europeans joined the North Americans for a most amazing 3-course meal with dessert  and entertainment.

For those who managed to get out of bed on Tuesday, 499 other show attendees joined them at the San Jose convention center-and the mood was incredible. Everyone was happy to be back in San Jose at a NonStop show instead of in Las Vegas in the middle of Summer!

It was really heartwarming to some and interesting to others that even with HPTF (the heretofore-described show in Las Vegas), people came to this event.  I personally know of several NonStop customers who never intended to come to San Jose but went to Las Vegas. They determined the NonStop symposium was the place to be and are here with bells on and very happy they came.

The San Francisco bay area is in the middle of a heatwave, so people can close their eyes and pretend that they're in Vegas, then open them up to see dozens of NonStop product managers, developers, and execs who find it a lot more pleasant to drive the 5 miles down highway 280 from Cupertino than to take a 90-minute flight to Vegas after waiting an hour in the security line.

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but what happens in San Jose has a big influence in Cupertino, helping build better products for the best computer system in the world. And isn't that a grand thing?

Lisa Partridge
XYPRO