iForum 2008, in the BriForum Ideas and Planning forum on BrianMadden.com

Now that iForum has been moved to May 2008 and BriForum is two months later in June, will this cause a drop in attendance for BriForum, or iForum for that matter?

I don't see managers approving two Citrix conferences that are 6-8 weeks apart.

I can't believe that Citrix would schedule the next iForum so soon after this one! What can they possibly have to tell us that's so amazing only six months later?

Briforum is much more worth the money. The DVD set alone will teach you more about this industry than iForum,Summit,VMWorld and training courses combined.

Yeah, it sure is possible. However, we surveyed the BriForum audience last year, and only about 10-15% of them go to iForum. In fact most people have told us that after attending BriForum, they'll never attend another iForum. :)

But I'll bet there will be some people who choose iForum instead. Now that we have our rhythm down for BriForum, we don't really want to mess with the dates. We've been doing it in the spring each year, so we're just going to stick with that for the time being!

Just wanted to chime in with my support of Brian's statement. I'm not as plugged in to the thin world as most here. I've spent more time in the last month working on developing a web application, for example, rather than dealing with my Citrix farm. With that said, I've attended two iForums. This was my first BriForum. I won't be doing another iForum. It was refreshing to attend a seminar in which a salesman wasn't trying to sell me a Citrix product.