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So I was given the opportunity to attend the big VMWare event of the year thanks to the folks at BYUH who were my kind sponsors. I was pretty excited about getting to be at the event where all the who’s who of virtual computing would be around to rub shoulders and answer questions and the like, and through the whole experience I was not disappointed.

The LACC was just big enough, most of the time, to host the 7000+ attendees, and when it wasn’t, the obesely overweight crowd would push out of the classrooms mooing and grunting as we would wind our way around the lines to find our next breakout session. It made for some good laughs, and I think everyone made it to their sessions without much trouble thanks to some good time scheduling on the part of the planners.

Some of the main highlights for me were seeing the concepts and vision of virtual computing articulated by those who are designing and implementing it all. They were realistic with projections and applications of the technology and that was a huge turn on for one who is warily approaching VMWare still. Also, the night they rented Universal Studios and catered us all fine meats and cheese’s while we rode the rides to the point of throwing up our fine meats and cheese, that was pretty great too. :

The blatant fault I saw in the conference this year were their keynote’s and general sessions. Imagine a group of professionals coming together to discuss and learn about an exciting option to their work and approach to a very traditional problem. 7000 people, who know what the heck we’re talking about, are sitting in a room, pretty excited, and if not to that point yet, are on the verge, ready to cheer any yoko who gets up and yells “VMWare baybee!” then jumps to the waiting hands of the crowd as we cheer and run off giddy with VMWare on our minds, so take that kind of energy and bring out your companies finest social retards, the folks who freeze up in conversation circles at parties anytime the topic drifts off security features of Cisco routers, take those people and let them MC, that’s right, he’s the guy who’s vamping us up, now for the keynote give us his sister, oh yeah, suck the energy right out of there. Each morning we would accidentally get excited before the meeting, just being around all these great people and talking about this technology did it to us, but then without fail, the keynotes and forums would make sure that we all hated the fact that we had to spend a whole day talking about this terribly boring technology.

I loved VMWorld, thought they did a great job, but guys, seriously, don’t kill our enthusiasm just cause you don’t have any, let us live in our fantasy land of vision and opportunity, it’s cooler up here.