I vote for day-long seminars on Monday before.  Seminars on that day should
be DAY-long or pairs of morning-afternoon seminars that people can choose.
 I chose the morning SQL tutorial (it was very good), but then I had an
afternoon to kill (with no vendor show!)
 
Some further thought needs to be given to the scheduling of SIGs against
seminars.  I missed SIGCOBOL because of conflicting seminar.  Lunch time and
the 5:00 slot are better even though it makes for a long day.  An
alternative might be 8:00 with breakfast and then have sessions start at
9:00 am.
 
Certain long-time HP3000 vendors were conspicuously absent or had only a
minimal presence.  Disappointing.  Cognos, Unison, Vesoft, Software
Research.
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