>>Man, am I naive. I thought all you guys and gals paid your own way to these things. Your companies usually pick up the tab? Great googly moogly, I am in the wrong end of the pool...
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>Me too. :-)

And I guess the thing that gets me is that without the company backing it's a no-go. I guess I understand that - money is money - but I always felt that the attendees were there strictly because they were "into" this stuff more than me. Now I find out that they probably wouldn't go if it cost them personally. We're not so different after all... <g>

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>>>We bought a competitor late last year and training budgets are targeted to learning each others products and technologies.
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>>>>That is a shame. Why not?