hob@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Helen O'Boyle) (02/20/89)
What makes a good hospitality suite? Good products? Good food? Good cohorts to hang out with? Good trinkets? How did the vendors at the Winter 89 Usenix measure up to your benchmark? This is the net's chance to provide feedback to those who provide us with something to do between conference sessions, after the BOF's, etc. Helen C. O'Boyle UUCP: killer!hob BELL: +1 804 780-2677
roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) (02/20/89)
hob@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Helen O'Boyle) writes: > What makes a good hospitality suite? Good products? Good food? Good > cohorts to hang out with? Good trinkets? There is no doubt that the Sun suite was the best of the show. 8-foot heros, good beer (Corona and Heinekin) nice fruit platters and munchies. The shoelaces were kind of neat too. The only thing I didn't like was that they weren't giving out their "(safe) Sex and Drugs and SPARC" buttons. Most of the other hospitality suites I hit only had Bud and Miller Lite. Yech! How to you expect to sell computers (or recruit employees) with Bud and Miller Lite? -- Roy Smith, System Administrator Public Health Research Institute {allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers}!phri!roy -or- phri!roy@uunet.uu.net "The connector is the network"
reggie@pdn.nm.paradyne.com (George W. Leach) (02/20/89)
In article <7232@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> hob@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Helen O'Boyle) writes: >What makes a good hospitality suite? Good products? Good food? Good >cohorts to hang out with? Good trinkets? Good trinkets!!! The shoe laces won it hands down for Sun :-) >How did the vendors at the Winter 89 Usenix measure up to your benchmark? Where were the Lachman (sp) folks? They always would have interesting hats! Denver was a ski cap, and Dallas was a cowboy hat. San Diego could have been a sailors hat....... >This is the net's chance to provide feedback to those who provide us with >something to do between conference sessions, after the BOF's, etc. Notice how few people were at the Pencom hospitality? -- George W. Leach Paradyne Corporation ..!uunet!pdn!reggie Mail stop LG-129 reggie@pdn.nm.paradyne.com P.O. Box 2826 Phone: (813) 530-2376 Largo, FL USA 34649-2826
vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) (02/20/89)
Good. Finally something useful in this group. # Most of the other hospitality suites I hit only had Bud and Miller # Lite. Yech! How to you expect to sell computers (or recruit employees) # with Bud and Miller Lite? To those who saw me hanging around in the DEC suite, I promise that next time I'll browbeat Armando into getting some decent beer. I wasn't involved in the preparations, but I will be next time. -- Paul Vixie Work: vixie@decwrl.dec.com decwrl!vixie +1 415 853 6600 Play: paul@vixie.sf.ca.us vixie!paul +1 415 864 7013
mark@tsunami.megatek.uucp (Rocket J. Squirrel) (02/21/89)
> From: hob@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Helen O'Boyle) > What makes a good hospitality suite? Good products? Good food? Good > cohorts to hang out with? Good trinkets? Good food, soft drinks and beer, and most importantly: quiet places to consume them away from the salesmen. Mind you, this may not work to the vendor's advantage ;-) -mark ps. Sun did it right in San Diego. They had a nice patio, i saw no salesmen at all, and they had toys (though i didn't play with them, myself). -- ucsd.edu!megatek!mark mark thompson "Tiger mutters the fighter pilot's prayer: `Oh shit.'" --
rcd@ico.ISC.COM (Dick Dunn) (02/22/89)
In article <3689@phri.UUCP>, roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes: > There is no doubt that the Sun suite was the best of the show. Not true. There is plenty of doubt, although they did a nice job. I thought HCR did OK too. The Guru beer would have had a better chance if people there had a better understanding of beer. (I assume the diacetyl character was intentional; it *was* a British beer, after all.) Amdahl had a good shot too; I think the hotel dropped the ball on them. (Are real chiles unknown in San Diego, or what?) Was it Pencom that made such a bad showing by having (apparent) leftovers from the reception the night before? > 8-foot heros, good beer (Corona and Heinekin) nice fruit platters... The sandwich was a good idea, but as for the beer, let's face it, Corona and Heineken are more mass appeal than tasteful! (Where's that Steam?!) Heineken is decently made, but too light, and why on earth does anyone ship something as perishable as beer 1/4 of the way around the world anyway??? Corona??? Come on, Corona is to beer what the PC/AT is to computers: It's a cut above the lowest commodity, but nobody who really cares takes it seriously. Look at it--the clowns who bottle it don't even care enough to put it in a proper bottle! The fruit was the best part. Speaking of that, I wonder how many people at the reception Wed figured out that the ham was wrapped around papaya... > ...The shoelaces were kind of neat too... Perhaps, but shoelaces have something in common with yo-yo's: ambiguity. With yo-yo's, it's obvious--do you want to be associated with something that's constantly going down and up, and sometimes won't come back up at all? Shoelaces are more subtle, but you have to wonder when Skip is standing there showing people how to tie nooses. -- Dick Dunn UUCP: {ncar,nbires}!ico!rcd (303)449-2870 ...Just say no to mindless dogma.