Facts and figures from the SharePoint Conference 2009

Martin Hatch, Solutions Architect

Wow - that's the word that summed up our reaction to the Keynote speeches to open the SharePoint Conference 2009. We'll be posting more about that shortly, but to warm you up here's some tasty facts and figures:

• 538 onsite labour days to setup the conference
• 7.5 miles of CAT5e cable used
• 7400+ attendees (up over 90% on the last SharePoint conference)
• 160+ partners
• 300+ hours of brand new content
• 297 speakers
• 240 break-out sessions
• (and 2 marriages!!)

So - you could say they are taking this conference VERY seriously.

It was also confirmed that the Public Beta of SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 will be launched in November and they are expecting an RTM release in the first half of 2010.

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 was also released today!

[Also posted on Martin's personal blog]