That's why I'd like to see attendance numbers for the other popular development tools also. There are many factors having an impact on attendance-not the least is travel fear and travel expenses. My parent company cancelled all training for the fiscal year and we have thousands of employees. Luckily no one has been laid off though--instead, they held pay increases to 2.5% - pretty good considering! The economical impact as well should have an effect on ALL conferences. It would be interesting to know the percentage drop in attendance for many of the conferences and of course those that had an increase (why?).

tRacy

>>I'm curious, since September's VS Live in Orlando drew approx 2000 attendees (correct?) what were the previous conferences' attendance? Was the percentage drop roughly the same?
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>Tracy;
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>There are so many factors (variables) at play with all this, the economy and security being just two. Throw in “Linux”, the .COM bomb, hundreds of thousands of software developers out of work, the new .NET development tools and whatever else you wish to include. In reality this is not an “red and green apple" comparison.
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>It is nice when life can be explained in simple and easy to understand terms but that is not always the case. Sometimes it is better to be ignorant and enjoy the ride.
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>Tom