Community sponsors gave HP World attendees a 3000 stronghold

Even as HP’s activities dwindle for the server, HP 3000 customers can find their first formal meeting point on the HP World show floor next month in Chicago. ScreenJet’s founder Alan Yeo spearheaded an effort to create a 3000 community point, “the place to meet fellow 3000 people at the conference.” Yeo and others swept past skeptics and convinced sponsors to do the right thing for the show’s most established customers. The meeting point will be at booth 821 on the show floor, space donated by Interex along with carpeting.

Community sponsors Pivital Solutions, Robelle, Marxmeier Software, OpenMPE, Karlin’s Korner, and Yeo’s ScreenJet Ltd. will pick up the tab for the stand’s tables and chairs, power, signage and other facilities. Yeo said the booth will at the least have a message board and place to charge up laptops, and could well have Internet access points by the time the show opens on Aug. 16. The 3000 NewsWire will scout about for a way to bring Chicago’s Uno pizza onto the show floor to feed the booth’s sponsors one afternoon, preferably on a day that doesn’t conflict with the annual 3000-L lunch — which Interex president Denys Beauchemin has organized for attendees for the past several years.

“I would say ‘thank you’ to Interex for sponsoring this space for the 3000 community point,” Yeo said. Booth space was running $5,000 for such a 10-by-10-foot stand at this year’s show. Yeo said the space will be a meeting point for the 3000 customers, a place to relax and show one another what they’ve learned and share what they’ve seen. One month before the conference started, Interex was listing 27 MPE-related vendors who had stepped up to mount their own booths at the show. About 150 companies in total — plus HP, still anchoring the exhibits area — were listed as HP World exhibitors.

Copyright The 3000 NewsWire. All rights reserved