David, Another point that I've been trying to get across is COLLABORATION. As you said, these conferences are expensive. The SIGAda booth cost $10,000, and shipping it around, paying for exhibitor space, and so on costs. Part of a solution is to collaborate and divide the costs. At least it gets the Ada name out there, even tho the booth may not be that of just one company. At Tech Ed 2000, there were two other companies sharing space in the IBM booth! Rick ==================================== Richard Conn, Principal Investigator Reuse Tapestry -----Original Message----- From: Richard Conn [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 7:14 PM To: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask] Subject: RE: The Pocket PC - a platform where Ada *should* have a presence The registration fee for Tech Ed was $1,600 per person. The cost for the 300-some vendors had to be high, such much higher than others, like Merant who co-sponsored the private party at Universal Studios. As for the broad statement that they were a bunch of brainwashed MSites, I had lunch at Tech Ed with senior managers and engineers from places like Boeing, Connecticutt Life, and the like, who were very serious about things like eCommerce and reliability and the DNS (Digital Nervous System). I also had lunch with techies where were worried about bit-twiddling. Rick ==================================== Richard Conn, Principal Investigator Reuse Tapestry -----Original Message----- From: David Botton [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 9:40 AM To: Richard Conn; [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: The Pocket PC - a platform where Ada *should* have a presence Do you even know what it costs to be part of Tech-Ed? Besides, Tech-Ed is made up of a bunch of brainwashed MSites who would never leave the comfort of the free crab legs for something that actually had a little beef on it like Ada. David Botton --- Richard Conn <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > It seems > there could have been at least one Ada compiler > vendor with Ada compilers > for Windows in a shrink-wrap package. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/