Last April 10, 2008 I attended Microsoft’s Heroes Happen Here event held at SMx Convention Center. It was Microsoft’s Product Launch Wave for its Server Platform (Windows Server 2008), Data Platform (SQL Server 2008) and Developer Platform (Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5).
IT Pros and Students across the country gathered together for this anticipated event. It was also a showcase of new and innovative products from reputable software and hardware vendors such as HP, Dell, Sun Microsystems (oh yes you heard it right, they have a demo machine running Windows Server 2008 on their Ultra Sparc server platform) and among others.
Microsoft users group community are also present as well. The PHIWUG (Philippine Windows Users Group), PHISSUG (Philippine SQL Server Users Group and of course the most popular PHINUG (Philippine .NET Users Group). Each UGs presented interesting mini-sessions on their respective booths and showcase some of the newest features of the 3 Microsoft Products during the afternoon.
By the way before I forgot, one of the most eye-catching scenes on the event was the presence of what I called Vendor “babes”. They are the pretty event models hired by software and hardware vendors to facilitate sign-up and prospective sales pitch.
Overall the event was really great and two thumbs up. Microsoft Philippines and the event organizer have done a great job.
