InfoWorld: OSBC Returns to One-Show Format Jun 9, 2006, 11 :30 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (6355 reads) (Other stories by Matt Asay)
"I have some good news and some even better news. First, the good news: after talking with a wide range of former and prospective attendees, we've decided to return to the Open Source Business Conference's roots and only offer one show per year. We had a great Boston event last year (with nearly double expected attendance), but we've worried that we weren't serving our market well by attenuating OSBC between two US events. A good conference is always about hallway chatter and networking, and splitting the event was counterproductive to this goal.
"We've therefore decided to consolidate the US shows into one mega-show (this is the 'better news'), the way O'Reilly has always done with OSCON..."
