Wondering how many people attending to watch failed company
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Perhaps this will be the breakthrough event where some of the LT will remember which company they actually work for and quite their current job title instead of the previous one....
Great events cost a lot of money, require a lot of planning, great content/speakers, exceptional organization/execution and a sizable batch of willing and influential participants to make them successful.
Does it really matter how many people attend when the keynote speakers have been so week or irrelevant. Can anyone recall a memorable speaker from the last few years - of the top off they’re head ? Someone who said something useful, provocative or game changing...
Many of the TD speakers on show in the past clearly red from scripts or concentrated on the prompts at there feet so hard they had forgotton that the audience had invested nearly a week of there time to be there.
Cost cutting, false economies and second class facilities/locations don’t help either. In the space of just a few years, it went from a must attend for senior staff and strategic customers to an optional, ‘thank you’ event for junior technology focused managers and DBAs. The very same people that accepted plenty of 121 meetings but never said or did anything useful, just collected their points and went to the next meeting.
All you need to do is throw some ‘partners’ into the mix - you now the type, the ones that are eating away at the fringes and effectively competing for the same core business in many cases.
Many of the application partners didn’t even run there software directly on TD...but they come along, sponsor nicely and are very happy talking to your most important customers.
Does any partner run a native application on the shiny new Vantage toy ? Something to make it operational or critical to a business unit ?
And on that final subject, can anyone name a database company that managed to stay independent without a thriving applications ecosystem and in-house portfolio ?
It's interesting to contrast the energy levels and excitement of other conferences held by other tech companies (e.g., Tableau) with the lack of energy and excitement at TD Universe. It's the same stuff :: different day with the same unimaginative people running the conference. You could align that last 10 Partners/Universes and not be able to tell the difference.
I’m so glad that I left TD behind. There are great market opportunities outside there. Many thanks to VL, OR and the rest for inviting me to find new challenges, otherwise I was dying together with the remaining people suffering
Thank you once again :)
less than 1000 customers. This maybe the last universe.
Still got some fine people. Technology still has a place. BUT too slow to move. PS management and leadership been appalling for a very long time...
And someone look under the rocks of APJ leadership - horrific!
How can it fail when the weekly tips for attendance hooks are so good ?
It’s such a fundamental part of the marketing strategy...oh wait, what strategy is that ?
Spam some people on Social, change the logo to look like EY, spaff out a world tour and change your mind about competition slanging matches on a monthly basis.
No doubt our friends from SF will be taking over Denver and doing some adult coloring on the wall opposite the Conf. Center.
Maybe they will pay for an ad at the airport too...after all, there are some other interesting pieces of art there, some decent ‘Let it snow,’ skiing nearby and some pokemons living under it, right ?
Not surprising. What is there to showcase? Same stuff different day. Proprietary, monolithic, inflexible and expensive - the software of the 90’s.
65% drop
OR and VL just fkn quit u id–ts
Pretty amazing how things have progressed TD Partners 2004 in Seattle - 10000 people attended.
Less than 150 so far. It was supposed to be cancelled and may still be
We are being harassed daily to get people to register. But little interest.