Companies such as Novell scrapped annual events such as BrainShare in 2009 due to potential attendees' severe travel cutbacks. (However, BrainShare's not gone for good. Novell is resurrecting the event for 2010 and registration is open.) Novell wasn't alone in saying "the show must not necessarily go on" in 2009, with Gartner nixing a couple of its big spring Symposium events.
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