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I have already posted about our experience at this years Henry Stewart DAM Symposium. Here are a few other observations I made and discussed about on Linkedin.

Although I have attended HS many times in a different capacity, this was the first time OpenEdit has exhibited . I didn't have high expectations regarding attendance but it was better than I had imagined. Our booth had steady foot traffic the entire show, 35 one on one demos!

I was also somewhat concerned how this crowd would respond to open source - they responded VERY positively.

Perhaps it was because we are open source, I noticed that most visitors to our booth were technical staff, not so much the end user.

There were only about a dozen vendors but considering many companies have come and gone or been purchased by others and accounting for the economic conditions, seemed about right.

Some attendees were looking at DAM for the first time but most already had commercial systems installed, although a few of those folks were looking for alternative solutions, such as EnterMedia. :-)

There were sessions sponsored by vendor's but most sessions had a nice array of users who spoke about their general experiences with DAM. I've always thought that both new and experienced DAM users get the most out of those sessions.

One very nice aspect of having HS at the Hilton rather than Javits Center is that it's more personal for attendee's. For instance, refreshment breaks and meals turned into round table discussions about DAM, I don't recall that happening so easily at Javits. Best idea's come from impromptu meetings like these.

Would be nice to see a session or two dedicated to open source. I know HS has done this in the past but my experience says the time is ripe to offer it again.

 

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