PDC overpriced
I read the comment posted after Roy's blog.
I agreed with Roy, this is really a joke !
And I like the comment from Martin saying that it's only 1695 $ for a pre early registration instead of 2000$.
What a discounted price ;-)
And Martin is also right saying that you have to add the cost of the flight and the hotel. So we are talking about 4 000 $ for a conference on something which will become obsolete in two months.
And don't forget the medias, who attend almost everything they want for free.
It's like TechEd, I wished I could be there, but how I can justify the cost. Yes surely it's much better than the PDC, but when I said to my boss it was in Spain, he didn't believe I wanted to be there for serious work ;-))
In Ireland, the situation is very simple, nothing happens from MSFT !
I know for sure thy use PR people to filled recently the only conference they organized this year... for free !
Apparently nobody wanted to join, the initial price was 300 euros, and fortunatly for them, not for me, my company paid.
Even the food didn't worth the money (sandwiches !!)