Wednesday, August 08, 2007 at 2:39 pm by opus:interactive
Interop ‘07 - Vegas Edition
Vegas. It’s the, um, subtle touches.
by Jeremy Sherwood
Walking into Interop in Las Vegas reminded me very much of a big kids’ Disneyland. The lights, the overly large gimmicks that scream “Look at me! Look at me!” It really was sensory overload. Looking back on the event I can still remember the booths that really made an impression. There was a lot of good swag, and of course the cheap booths that attempt to persuade you with a simple little 25-cent plastic clapper (although my 1-year-old digs the plastic clapper).
Interop 2007 brought home that we are doing the right things and heading in the right direction. We are well ahead of the curve in almost all areas of IT.
Sure, but was it worth it?
by Jason Nuss
From the moment the flight was booked and my registration for Interop was complete the only thing I could think of was, “Is this going to be worth the money?” Although we did the free registration for the conference I knew we would be spending a lot of money to get down there, a lot of money on hotel, food, taxis, monorail, and of course entertainment. In the end, on the flight back to Portland, my thoughts were, “That was a great trip.” Here’s why.
Babes. Babes. Technology. Babes.
by Eric Hulbert
Wow! The booth babes were incredible. These shows never cease to amaze me. Every other booth had models sporting ultra slinky spandex wear showing off their products trying to draw you in to their booths. It works! I was very happy to see that we are well ahead of the curve in almost all areas of the IT lifecycle and daily managed services sustainability practices.
Lots of opportunities.
by Brady Wilson
It’s been years since I’ve been to an industry convention like this. The most exciting product I discovered at the show was SolidDNS by a company called InfoWeapons. It is a DNS server software/appliance management by a GUI interface. What’s interesting is that it’s based on their own flavor of FreeBSD called SolidBSD. It uses Bind for its DNS daemon and pf for its local firewall. That’s exactly where I would like to take the opus:interactive DNS platform.
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