SunCEC2007 Day 1: Masses of engineers

I´ve wrote in my Twitter feed about the number of attendees: 4000 engineers. This number is interesting out of two reasons: At first its a large amount of people that came together for this conference. Think only about the logistics challenges like breakfast or the problem of 4000 people leaving the room right after the keynotes. But the more interesting point is: As far as i recall 40 % of the customer facing enginner force of Sun was invited to CEC. This means there are round about 10.000 customer facing engineers out there to represent the technology. Really a huge number …. but when you hear about all the new and cool stuff we will do now and tomorrow, not a single engineer too much …