This has been the most horrible experience i have had in the recent times, Redhat had invited people from the Industry for their just concluded Event on Open Source, and after receiving a mail confirmation on the same, and reaching the venue on time, we where not allowed inside, on the pretext that we had only Registered on the website (Why on the first place did they Invite all to Register on the Website is not known and hard to understand), Just b'cause the Event was held at a Prestigious Hotel with a Cocktail dinner??? the guys where not attended to and allowed to participate?? well Redhat has to come up with some Answers for the same. Numerous people who may have canceled their appointments and work just to attended this Event where to their horror left out of the Event without any Courtesy, Hope Javed Tapia, Sachin Dabir, Animesh Singh, Rama Singh, Our own Venky, and miss Aditi's listening, are we seeing an Emerging Alternative to Microsoft and the Likes, or does Redhat want to portray that they are the Only Ones providing Open Source Solutions, If they feel thay have a Monopoly on GNU Based Distributions thay are for a shock. I have my grievances not b'cause i missed out on a cocktail party, but the way people where treated from our own community at Such Events. The hard work of numerous GNU Community Soldiers is being capitalized buy such a disorganized company as Redhat, and they want to term them selfs as Leaders who are taking the Industry towards Open source.
Regards yayati.
---- quoting Rehats Confirmation mail.
Thank you for your interest in the Red Hat World Tour 2004. You are currently registered for the following event in Mumbai:
Date: Thursday, 30 September 2004 Time: 6-9:30pm Venue: The Taj Mahal Palace and Tower Address: Apollo Bunder, Mumbai 400 001 Function Room: Chrystal Central Hotel Ph: 91 22 5665 3366
Come listen to Red Hat executives, engineers, and product managers, as well as partners Intel and Oracle, explain how open source is creating faster, cheaper, more secure and reliable solutions. Come ask questions. Give us feedback. And learn how the Open Source Architecture model gives companies the choice they need to improve their business.