I've done booth duty before.
But nothing, I repeat *nothing*, had prepared me for the wave of eager young developers that descended upon our Globalization booth at 8am on Friday morning. It was a thing of beauty.
At one point I thought of you all and decided to snap a few pictures so you could see the ocean of people I was swimming in.
See that guy in the yellow sweater? That's Aaron and I was trying to hand completed surveys back to him. But the tide kept pushing me out to sea!
Sohu.com later confirmed my suspicion that the number of attendees was much higher than expected - somewhere around 3,000.
I wanted to talk to all of them, ask them where they worked, what they thought of Netbeans and especially our localized version of it, blah blah blah, I could have gone on and on.
But there were just so many of them! So I did the best I could. I smiled at all of them and talked to a few. And I handed our give-aways as fast as I could.
I'm looking forward to next year already!
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My feeling is that there are more students than before. It is interesting because the event is not free -- usually not many students would afford the entrance ticket.
Posted by Harry Fu on November 25, 2008 at 05:30 PM CST #
Wow! So cool! I wish our execs would provide free passes for the wall street analysts to see how big a a following Sun has in Asia so that they make better valuations for our JAVA!
Posted by Madhan Kumar on November 26, 2008 at 04:02 PM CST #