CEC 2007, Las Vegas I
have been in Las Vegas since Sunday for a conference. This is
Sun's
internal conference for Customer Engineers and Partners called
CEC,
or Customer Engineering
Conference. Todd Fast
and I are here to
speak about the project that I referred
to in my previous entry.
Our talk went quite well. I got a scare on
Sunday when I was
informed that not every partner attending this conference is covered
under a
Non-Disclosure Agreement.
So, we began our talk saying,
"Do not talk about this. Do not blog about this. If you are not
a Sun
Employee and are not covered by an NDA, we still love you, but
we request that you leave
the room now."
No one had to leave and we received a lot of positive feedback on the
project.
On Monday evening, there was a "speedgeek" session. There were 10
tables and each presenter had to provide their spiel for 5 minutes
as
the audience rotated from one table to another.
At the end, the audience got to vote on the "best project". Our project
won the top prize.
On
Tuesday, there was a keynote session by Jonathan Schwartz.
With over 4000
people
attending the conference, the energy level
was quite high - the
drummers (pictured to the left) only
accentuated this energy. Jonathan,
as always, delivered a highly
motivational speech. He was in his
element when someone asked
the question if we should be worried about
the NetApps law suit.
He said, "No" and qualified it by saying that
NetApps actually did
us a favor by filing the law suit in the first
place. They validated
our technology and they did not have a basis for
the law suit!
Wednesday Oct 10, 2007
I
have been in Las Vegas since Sunday for a conference. This is
Sun's 
On
Tuesday, there was a keynote session by Jonathan Schwartz.
attending the conference, the energy level
