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Culminis hosted
a booth at Tech•Ed
2004. The event was a great success on all
fronts. We were able to talk with several group
leaders and explain the Culminis mission and
benefits, generating awareness and excitement
among those current leaders. We also talked
with a number of people, who fall into the group
comprised of about 80% of the total people who
stopped by the booth, who were not members of
any user group. This draws attention to the
challenge we all face, both at Culminis and in
the IT Professional community, in generating
awareness and excitement about user groups.
User groups offer a wealth of support for IT
Professionals, and it is up to all of us to
promote user groups and the benefits they offer.
The Culminis
team was also very proactive in communications
with potential sponsors. We generated excitement
and enthusiasm around our mission, catching the
interest of several possible sponsors. We will
keep you up to date as these relationships
develop.
Windows & .NET Magazine
and Culminis announced a partnership at the
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& .NET Magazine
award party. All of their award winners also
received sponsorship status as a part of their
prize package. Congratulations to all of the
winners, we look forward to working with you.
Finally,
Culminis gave away 8 copies of Windows Server
2003, Enterprise Edition, valued at $4000 each
and generously donated by Microsoft, from among
attendees who stopped by the Culminis booth and
filled out a short information card. The winners
are:
Dan Zanetta
Jason Ballard
Shaun Roberts
Ken Foster
Lynn Lawton
Herbert Pruitt
Ana c.v. de Meho
Lawan M Johnson
Congratulations
to all the Winners!!
(note: if any
of the winners cannot be reached, alternate
names will be drawn)
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Windows & .NET Magazine
Network
announced a new partnership with Culminis during
their Best of Tech•Ed
2004 Awards reception at the Marriott Marina
hotel in San Diego. As part of the partnership,
Windows & .NET Magazine
Network
will provide extensive marketing resources to
Culminis as a high-level sponsor in the Culminis
Solution Provider Network, as well as providing
Culminis Alliance Members exclusive discounts on
magazine subscriptions, such as the newly
renamed
Windows IT Pro Magazine,
and other products/services.
Kim Paulsen, Group Publisher for
Windows & .NET Magazine,
SQL Server Magazine,
and
Connected Home Magazine,
also presented awards to Windows technology
vendors in 10 categories and announced an
overall Best of Show winner. The field included
more than 260 entries, and the judges evaluated
products based on their strategic importance in
the market, competitive advantage, and value to
the customer. The categories included: Business
Productivity
· Business
Productivity Solutions – Oracle Corporation’s
Oracle Collaboration Suite
· Data
Management - Quest Central for SQL Server
· Developer Tools (Components and
Middleware) - ComponentOne’s Studio Enterprise
· Developer
Tools (Software) - Altova’s XMLSpy |
· Management
& Operations - Reflectent Software’s EdgeSight
3.0
· Messaging
- Akonix Systems’ L7 Enterprise
· Mobile
PCs & Devices - Intellisync Corporation’s Mobile
Suite
· Security
- BindView’s Vulnerability Management Suite
· Windows
Infrastructure Solutions (Software) - NSI’s
Double-Take
· Windows
Infrastructure Solutions (Hardware) - IronPort
Systems’ C60 Gateway Appliance
· Editor’s
Choice for Services - Postini’s Perimeter
Manager
· Most
Interesting New Product - Xprime’s Xprime
Database Accelerator
· Overall
Best of TechEd - AMD’s AMD64 Platform
As part of their reward for being selected as
best-of-breed in their respective categories,
all 13 winners have been offered membership in
the Culminis Solution Provider Network (CSPN) as
Level 1 sponsors. Exclusive discounts on these
products will be provided to Culminis Alliance
Members, and details will be provided to User
Group leaders when they become available. |
