Looking for blogs from the Intergraph conference? I guess not

Looking for blogs and news from the Intergraph conference? Apparently not... a quick cruise through technorati searching on "Intergraph" http://www.technorati.com/tag/intergraph turned up pretty much nothing (except for one post by yours truly)... interesting the images section pulled images from Intergraph's UC in 2005 - curiously also posted by yours truly on our GISuser flickr. Searching DIGG (http://www.digg.com/search?section=news&s=intergraph) I found 3 hits. Joe F. who's from Huntsville AL has posted something this AM about the Neil Armstrong keynote (way cool!) but otherwise its pretty quiet.. too bad. Of interest on the wire I saw a few PR items released today (once again I had to go out and look for these) and one of them got my attention - this due to some clever keywords being used by the company... "Intergraph Integrates with Leading Interactive Mapping Services Delivers Custom Data for Rich Geospatial Mashups". Jumping on the bandwagon, looks like one of the selling points for GeoMedia WebMap 6.1 will be the ability to quickly and easily create mashups - ie. combining your data and queries with either the Google Maps or Microsoft Virtual Earth map data. I didn't make it to the INGR gig again this year -- too bad or I likely wouldn't have to rant like this about the lack of exposure ;0) Getting back to a post of mine a few days ago, conference organizers these days would be wise to take advantage of the Web 2.0 and maybe setup a blogger or 2 of their own to get some news out. O'reilly Media does a great job of this with their events. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/ - Perhaps more info will fallout next week once attendees return home. Looking for a link to the INGR conference homepage? I'll share it with you here as you'll be hard-pressed to find anyone else linking to it - try http://www.intergraph2007.com

Intergraph out of Utility business - Batty sets the clueless straight!

I found this interesting - and amusing from Peter Batty regarding some industry speculation on his departure from Intergraph... this from Peter's Blog... "I have heard from my friends in the Intergraph utility team that competitive salespeople have been telling customers that I left Intergraph because they are pulling out of the utility business, and I just wanted to say that this is complete nonsense. The utility business is one of Intergraph's most profitable areas, and Intergraph has some strong momentum there right now and is very committed to the business"... imagine.. "industry" people actually thinking that Intergraph would be getting out of the utility business... sorry but if your one of those people that would actually think such nonsense then maybe give your head a shake (you might even consider a new line of work too since you're obviously out to lunch!)... See more on Peter's blog - http://geothought.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-can-you-tell-when-gis-salesman-is.html - On a side note... the annual Intergraph Conference (sorry but the actual name of it escapes me as it seems to change names every year!) will feature Neil Armstrong as the keynote speaker.. how cool is that?