3000 managers who were looking toward the next HP World show in 2001 will need to look later into the year, as Interex rescheduled its yearly all-things-HP conference back into its usual summer time slot. The 2001 edition will be in the mid-August time frame, not mid-May as first scheduled. The change gets the show out of competition with HP World Japan, a conference not presented by Interex, as well as the Interop networking conference already set in the month of May.

Conference manager Kathy Herzog the reasons for moving to May — the user group’s concerns about limited availability of HP top managers for its show, and HP product announcements not scheduled for the late summertime slot — are disappearing with the changing of the guard in CEO Carly Fiorina’s organization. Herzog said the 2001 show’s Chicago dates — it’s still set for McCormack Place there — would be finalized before this year’s HP World convenes on Sept. 9.