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From: peter@world.std.com (Peter Salus)
Newsgroups: comp.org.sug
Subject: Sun User Group Exhibit Only Fee
Message-ID: <1990Oct19.152134.22517@world.std.com>
Date: 19 Oct 90 15:21:34 GMT
Sender: Peter H. Salus
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Dan Davidson asked several quite disjunct queries in 
his posting.  Not wanting to get into an argument 
of any sort, let me try to answer them factually.

(1) The exhibits-only admission in San Jose will 
	be $15.  It wasn't in the brochure because 
	it's an on-site, not pre-registration 
	fee.

(2) SUG isn't "Sun's User Group,"  it is the Sun User 
	Group,Inc.  If it were a "captive" group -- 
	like DECUS, for example -- it could have free 
	(subsidized) memberships.  

(3) Dan may feel the fees are extravagant, but the 
	tutorials are the same as those at Sun Expo
	and less than those at USENIX or UNIX Expo.
	I don't have too many booklets on my desk, 
	but the C++ conference in New Jersey last 
	month was $895 for the conference, $350
	for a full-day tutorial.  That's over 
	double what the SUGFest fee is in either 
	category.  In 1989, 40% of SUG's income and
	about 12% of its operating revenue came from 
	the Anaheim meeting.

-- 
The difference between practice and theory in practice is always
greater than the difference between practice and theory in theory.