I spent yesterday at GigaOm’s Structure 08 Conference.
It was GREAT.
If anyone thinks the conference business is dead, they are DEAD WRONG. The overflow crowd clearly showed that there is lots of interest in Infrastructure. Hats off to the entire team at GigaOm and especially to Surj Patel who guided the conference.
Om was looking fit and about as agile as I’ve seen him since his return to action after his heart attack late last year. The smiling editor was like a whirling dervish, as he moved from session to session, meeting with people and keeping tabs of every detail.
One of my longtime friends, Tony Greenberg of RampRate was there as his company sponsored the event along with many other top name companies. Greenberg, whose company provides the kind of data to help IT intensive organizations make well informed decisions on which suppliers to use, then goes out and sources it for them, knows value in IT technology. Recently I turned him on to client Junction Networks, ONSIP platform. When I asked him how he liked the service he replied he was thrilled and remarked “there’s no reason for anyone to pay $20.00 a month for Voice Services anymore,” referring to Junction Networks model of only pay for what is used that they debuted last year with OnSip’s launch.