[advocacy-discuss] Linuxworld conference. (Didn't it used to be called SunWorld??)

[Keith Bierman]

On Aug 15, 2007, at 12:58 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote:

> Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
>
>> Brandorr wrote:
>>> Or is my memory flippin bits?
>>
>> IDG has run many *World conferences & magazines over the years -
>> LinuxWorld is no more a replacement for SunWorld than it is for
>> MacWorld or PCWorld, just another brand in their family.
>>
>> (I do remember SunWorld magazines, don't remember if they had
>>  conferences too.)

Yes they did. Indeed, the tail end of the SUG era and Sunworld  
overlapped in San Francisco where the Java team snatched life from  
cancellation with a nice demo, talk and free pizza.
>
> There was a SUG and there have been SUG conferences until ~ 1994.
>
> Then SUG lost it's free office in a Sun building because the SUG
> did also include Solbourne computers in the conferences.....
>
> this was the end of the SUG at that time.

There were a variety of far more fundamental issues, Solbourne wasn't  
the reason Sun and SUG parted ways. The SUG leadership under Peter  
Salus played a game of chicken with Ed Zander. It took another 18  
months or so for the final death throws, but it was an otherwise  
lovely meeting in Atlanta (where we got like 24" of water in a couple  
of hours) where the die was cast.

It was a pity, but these things happen.
>

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