Well, I'm not a board member, but I think there was just a coup d'état back at the HP Corporate marketing command bunker and HP customers, errr, scratch that, HP consumers, are going to pointed to the back of the bus.
Eric Sand
an awfully quiet thread. any Interex board members care to comment?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wirt Atmar [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 9:58 PM
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> Subject: OT: Interex? What's Interex?
>
>
> It appears that HP didn't even bother to wait for Interex to
> take the vote
> that would allow it to commit suicide willingly, and in the
> process become just
> another HP promotional mechanism. The following announcement
> appeared on the
> BusinessWire this afternoon (If you're unaware of the
> BusinessWire, it's an
> organization designed to allow corporations to put public
> relations announcements
> out to the world in the form of thinly-disguised news items):
>
> Wirt Atmar
>
> ========================================
>
> Updated: 03:09 PM EDT
> HP to Host Unified Technical Users Conference in 2005 as Showcase for
> Adaptive Enterprise Strategy
>
> PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--07/28/2004-- Conference
> Attendees from
> Across HP's Customer Base to Benefit from Training and
> Education Certified by HP
>
> HP (NYSE:HPQ) (Nasdaq:HPQ) today announced plans for a new
> technical users
> conference in September 2005 to be led by HP.
>
> HP also reaffirmed its strong support as the Premier Sponsor
> of HP World 2004
> in Chicago and David Parsons, vice president, enterprise
> segment marketing -
> Americas, Customer Solutions Group, was named the executive
> sponsor of the
> Encompass and Interex user groups. HP World 2004 runs Aug. 16 - 20.
>
> For the first time, the 2005 conference will unite the
> education and training
> across HP's broad base of user groups - systems integrators,
> value-added
> resellers, independent software vendors, HP Certified
> Professionals and partners -
> alongside HP's technical presales teams. The conference will instruct
> technical users in the Americas in how to help companies
> synchronize business and
> information technology (IT) in order to embrace change,
> accelerating the journey
> toward becoming Adaptive Enterprises.
>
> "Creating a brand new technical users conference hosted by HP
> is a natural
> evolution of our strategy to provide one 'face' to our
> customers," said Parsons.
> "Most of our users have multiple HP solutions running in their IT
> environments. By coalescing the various HP user events under
> one roof, we can provide
> training direct from HP that goes beyond any single
> technology area to reflect
> the real-world data centers of our customers."
>
> In planning for the 2005 event, HP is reaching out to all of
> its major user
> groups to participate. Encompass has already pledged its
> collaboration on the
> 2005 event, and discussions are still in progress between HP
> and the other user
> groups.
>
> "We are looking forward to HP World next month in Chicago and
> are excited to
> support HP in its plans for a new technical event in 2005,"
> said Kristi
> Browder, president, Encompass. "User-focused, quality content
> remains our highest
> priority. We confidently anticipate that Encompass members
> will continue to
> benefit from a dynamic user community and quality networking
> opportunities at next
> year's event and beyond."
>
> HP plans to provide further information on the 2005 technical
> user conference
> location and date in the coming weeks.
>
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>
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