VMworld 2008 – The day after

So, here I sit at the beach. A nice cappucino on the table, sun light on my face, Amy Winehouse playing on my mp3-player, beautiful girls doin’ their morning jogging round and a laptop on my knees. I could imagine worse conditions. When walking past Palais des Festivals, the big VMworld advertising is gone, all VMworld flags have been removed and are laying in a corner below the stairs. A new event is coming and Palais des Festivals is ready for it. That’s how fast it goes.

 

Looking back at three days VMworld I must say, this was better then ever. I’ve been to Paris in 2006, Nice and San Francisco in 2007, but Cannes has topped them all. Great job VMware and Richard Garsthagen!!! It was very well organized: coming from the airport we were directed to the buses by nice ladies with big Vmworld signs. In Cannes itself registration went very fast and without any problems. During the remainder of the event you would almost trip over all the helpful personnel waiting to help you. Getting lost was alsmost impossible.

 

Not only the entourage was good, the sessions were great to. The technical level was much better then previous events. I spoke to Richard Garsthagen about this and he told me that he instructed the speakers to use a max of 2 slides for global introduction and dive into deep technical details as soon as possible. Well, most of them managed to do so. My compliments, this is were I came for and I’ve been hearing the same comments from other VMworld visitors.

 

In the next few days I’ll try to write short summaries about the sessions I’ve visited. You can already find the Exchange with 16000 mailboxes report on my blog. Be sure to check for new reports real soon. 

 

Hope to see you at VMworld Europe 2009 !!!

 

(wow, that seems like a really long time!)