The Domino Chick

Move from Notes seminar - what happened?

Tuesday, February 1st, 2005

Today I was supposed to go to a seminar sponsored by Microsoft and delivered by Guidance, a MS business partner, entitled "Moving from Lotus Notes/Domino and Microsoft - Integrate, Extend or Migrate Lotus Notes/Domino to Microsoft Products". I was, of course, mostly interested in what they had to say about integration and coexistence, because in the real world, people rarely run a shop that's using 100% of any one company's technologies. It's much more likely to see a huge mix of different operating systems, applications, legacy systems, etc., and I like to learn new ways of addressing these issues.

Imagine my surprise when I went to the partner's website and saw the seminar missing from their front page. I double-checked my e-mail - I'd received a confirmation notice when I registered but no cancellation notice, so to be sure I went to the registration site and entered in the seminar's event ID. The registration website told me that no such event ID existed. I then called the business partner's office but was unable to confirm with a live person whether the seminar was still going to occur. As I don't really like going to Dodger Stadium (the location of the seminar) when it's not baseball season, I'm not going to risk it -but what if other attendees don't check the website and go to Dodger Stadium only to find no seminar going on?

What happened?

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Posted by: Kathleen McGivney at: 12:35:43 PM