Last night we held our first meeting since roughly September and the attendance was fairly good. We had a few regulars, few newbies, few old friends.. all in all it was a good networking meeting and the chance to catch up with peers and everyone picked up something new about Microsoft licensing, CRM 4.0, Cougar, etc.

JJ Antequino from Microsoft was on hand too, still with the TS2 team, to talk about all things tech - Linux, Vmware, Citrix, Citrix app streaming; We have been very fortunate to successfully find the balance of sabotaging his career to the point that he’s not promoted yet not fired. Good news for Florida!

Some people got new jobs and talked about that, others went back to their businesses, some got a decent haircut and a shower which is always good news. It was just an evening of discussion of diverse IT topics:

Cougar, Centro, Responsepoint, GP/CRM and financial integration middleware, Dlink switches for small business, Citrix, Microsoft Licensing (new volume), SAS70 data center certification, mobility, CLEC bailouts, Silverlight bashing, divided house on the XP vs. Vista.

So next month, we’ll try the same. At some point, someone will find some value in the captive peer audience and present something that might elevate their business and their expertise and lead to subcontractor gigs or leads.. but until that happens, the peer conversation seems to be quite valuable as well.

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