Mike Berkowitz notes that this year's HPWorld conference costs
US$1190 for 3.5 days, versus $895 for the same duration last year.

IIRC, when I noted several years back that HPWorld (or whatever
it was called) ceased to be a "good deal," the response was that
the new costs were more in line with the conference industry
at large.

Unfortunately, IMHO, that's exactly the wrong attitude.

Since the costs are similar, *why not* look elsewhere?
For example, O'Reilly has an "Open Source Convention"
coming up late July in San Diego.

   http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/

3-day conference registration:  $895  (look familiar?)
0.5-day tutorial.............:  $345
 (I'd do PostgreSQL or Perl+XML)

Of course, there are no e3000-specific vendors at the O'Reilly
conference, but for those looking for skills rather than for
products, one could do much worse than O'Reilly.

--Glenn

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