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 !!)

 

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  • If it helps, there are no events in Singapore either...




  • Paschal: I agree that the PDC is prohibitively expensive for many developers, but I disagree with your statement that its content "will become obsolete in two months." Remember, .NET was unveiled at PDC 2000, and it's far from obsolete nearly 3 years later! I suspect that the information to be unveiled at this year's PDC will have similar longevity.





    Whether or not the privilege of seeing it first is worth $4,000 is up to you. ;-)

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