Well, actually, no not quite live. As it turns out the wireless access is extremely flaky in our little corner of the Moscone Center. BEA does in fact have sponsored access, but it isn’t what I would call usable.
As such, any posts today are batched up and posted at the end of the day. We’ll see if there is any better luck tomorrow. In general the conference center feels huge compared to the number of attendees, but it was really on a “pre-conference” set of user group meetings for AquaLogic User Interaction (ALUI) and AquaLogic Business Process Management (ALBPM) customers. These products were formerly known as Plumtree and Fuego, but apparently the marketing folks at BEA felt those names were entirely too pronounceable. Maybe it’s just an homage to the guys that came up with Intercal (aka “Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym).
In any case, I expect things to get a bit bigger tomorrow, and hopefully more people complaining about network performance will spur some improvement.