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>>>Advisor was happy with 750. Attendance at all conferences has been down this year. TechEd was down 3000 and an IBM conference was down 10,000. I also think last year's fiasco in Miami helped drop the attendance.
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>>Hi Craig, what was the fiascon in Miami?
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>Bad hotel, a day and a half of .Net indoctrination, and a poor session topics.


Well, I think having three "major" conferences within a 6 month period has something to do with it. If you combine all three conferences, you'll probably come up with more than the 1800 we had at the first Devcon after MS purchased Fox.

John