Boldly going to IBM Rational 2008

"Aside from the lack of decent 'freebies', the choice of only two beers (at least they had Heineken!) and the rain showers — I guess I'm having a pretty good time. IBM does a reasonable job of getting its message across to those of us that are pretty new to software application development and personally I do buy into the need for greater collaboration tools in programming. It's a shame that some of the sessions come across as sales pitches and unfortunately, I think the show theme is incredibly tacky even though I love cartoons and I'm a keen fan of Star Trek in all its generations — it really is just overkill. It's a big shame that we don't get to meet William Shatner to try and get his autograph though."

Jesper Janssen, support level engineer, Amsterdam, Holland