Some quick comments on "the show so far":

The Al Franken thing was mostly a waste of time (and a real waste of money
IMHO).  The talk was occasionally humorous (if you're a Democrat and agree
with Al's thesis that no Democrat ever made a mistake and that every
Republican is an idiot).  I don't think I've ever heard a more one-sided
(and mostly "serious" as opposed to "entertaining") political sales pitch.
I think it was when Mr. Franken actually managed to defend Al Gore's claim
of having "invented the Internet" that he lost a lot of the audience :-)

The opening key note speeches by Carly (live on tape) and Ann this morning
made fairly dramatic references to the 3000.  Carly used it as an example of
one of HP's big successes (in the past anyway).  Ann specifically addressed
the 3000 users in the audience, referring to the number of yellow "owl"
shirts, and stating that if people want to get off of MPE that she wants to
make sure that they at least stay on an HP platform, and if they want to
stay on MPE forever, then that's fine too.

I thought I detected a faint air of annoyance ("you're making me re-record
this whole speech just to include an MPE reference?") in Carly's demeanor,
but it was probably my imagination :-)

Carly announced that they will introduce the new Superdome HP-UX box
tomorrow in New York.  She touted Superdome as the first product of the new,
reinvented, HP.  By all accounts this is supposed to be one hot box.
There's a prominent place in the HP booth that looks like it might acquire
one of these things overnight.  Stay tuned.

The management roundtable starts in five minutes, but I don't know *any* of
the people on the panel, and I doubt that any of them would know much about
the 3000, so I'll probably pass.  The people on the recent Management
Roundtables have seemed totally disconnected from reality.  What we need is
a separate CSY Management Roundtable containing the people who used to be on
the "big" management roundtable.

Winston's CSY talk isn't until Wednesday, but he arrived yesterday in time
to get to the HP Welcome Reception Sunday night.

This is apparently the second largest HP World from a pre-registration
standpoint, and the largest vendor show in history.

The vendor show is huge (and very noisy in some areas, but the noisy monster
booths seem to be located next to (and thus competing in volume with) each
other).  Either I'm getting shorter or the booths are getting taller.

Wirt is demoing some amazing enhancements to QCTerm at the Adager booth.
Unfortunately his scheduled talk is about the last thing on the conference
agenda Thursday, so a lot of people will probably miss it :-(

HP has native IA-64 Java running under the IA-64 HP-UX in an Itanium HP
workstation in theor booth among other things.  They are also demoing the
Enhydra Application Server running on MPE (also Java).

All for now.