Strange Activity at SWW2006

This has been on my mind for a long time now, but did anyone else
encounter the two people handing out flyers outside of SolidWorks World
2006 (in Vegas)?

They were located on the walkway between Caesars and the Strip, and the
cards they were handing out were multicolored (and no, they did not
have pictures of women with phone numbers). One side of the card had
something like "Questions that SolidWorks Does Not Want You to Ask" and
the other had some other specific question about the capabilities of
SolidWorks.

However, I asked the ladies handing these things out and they had no
idea who was behind it all (nothing written on the cards either). Does
anyone else know more about these?

 

Do you happen to remember what specifically was on the flyers?

Ken

 

Have a few of them, but can't get them till Monday. Wil post when I
get them

 

On the very same bridge they were also handing out invitations to some
"surfing" party where you could see a cool surfing simulator. I heard later
a rumour that the party had nothing to do with SW, but instead it was
organized by some *ahem* yet unknown competitor. I took the flyer, let's see
if I have it somewhere.

-h-

 

That's what I was trying to find out Heikki, but the gals handing out
the flyers were only temps and knew nothing about who was actually
providing the cards.

 

I believe those were from AutoDesk. There was a web survey with similar
questions. If there was an invite to a surf party it definitely was
from AutoDesk as someone else on the newsgroup already pointed that out
the Sunday before SWW started.

 

Interesting. The day I encountered them was Monday afternoon.

 

Moonies or Banquers?

 

They were from AutoDesk. I ran into them Saturday morning inside of
Caesars. They handed me one of the invites to the surf party.
Sunday, after the vendor fair (and a couple of bars), I and one of the
guys I was with went to see the surf machine. I'm not sure what they
were trying to get across as there was no sales pitch. They didn't ask
for our information or anything. They simply put us in wet suits and
let us surf and body board for 45 minutes or more. If they were trying
to impress us with their software's design capabilities, it didn't
happen. I saw no reason that SW couldn't do the same.
Anyway, it all seemed rather benign.

 

It was Autodesk that had set up the "The perfectly engineered surf
party for Solidworks users" behind the Imperial Palace. When I arrived
at my room at Imperial on Sat afternoon, I could see the set-up from my
balcony. Later that evening I took a stroll back there after seeing
the posters. Once I saw them hanging up the Autocad banners, I knew
exactly what it was. But just like their software, it looked as if
more people were walking away from it, then to it! I made a post here
and over at eng-tips when I got back to my room after walking to see
what it was. From what I heard, Autodesk has done something like this
the past few years. Thats truely a sign of how much a company is
suffering when they resort to trying to trick people into talking to
them.

 

Works forAmway & the fundies.

 

Banquers or Bonkers

 

I think those were alien creatures disguised as temp workers....did you
happen to see Molder and Scally in the area?

 

I just dug up these quotes from Inventor World or whatever it is called
[
Autodesk Manufacturing Solutions Summit]

- The external marketing people had the job of diverting excitable
attendees. Complaints about the Autodesk marketing stunt at SolidWorks
World were met with "Do you iron your own clothes?" Or this bland
diversion: "I've always hated my last name." I rather like mine, which
is why I'm a writer and perhaps why they're not. "I didn't realize she
was doing that," admitted the Autodesk executive when the diversionary
tactic was pointed out to him. "I get it every working day," I
responded wearily.

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