I'm back home in Cincinnati after a great time at TMCNet's IT Expo in Miami.  I spoke to my wife on the telephone while I was there - from the Packet8 reception at the beautiful Miami Botanical Gardens.  We were outside in shirt sleeves watching a very nice sunset over the palm trees and she told me "You're lucky" - since she was driving home from her studio in a blizzard back in Cincinnati.

So the IT in IT Expo stands for Internet Telephony.  My primary purpose for attending this conference was to meet more people in the Microsoft Response Point team and the rest of the RP ecosystem.  In that respect, this was a very successful trip for me.  I saw my old friend Rex Backman, met Richard Sprague finally (we've spoken and emailed quite a bit before), met XD and John Fredriksen, the new General Manager of Response Point.  I hung out with my friend Ed Carnes (an RP VAR from Nashville) and Marta and Luis from the RP Team.  Marta and Luis took Ed and me to a GREAT cuban restaurant for lunch.  We had plantains prepared three different ways and yucca prepared two different ways.  It was a tastebud's treat.

Besides all the Microsoft folks, there was a great presence by a lot of other related products and services for the RP brand.  We got to hear about what everyone is doing and some things that are coming down the pike.  Get this, D-Link is working on a new Response Point phone that will have Internet Radio!

Response Point SP2 was announced/released on the first day of the conference.  A lot of new features at absolutely NO COST to any existing customers - another FREE upgrade.

I've got a few pictures and I've learned that this blog system doesn't auto-size them - or at least I don't know how to do that.  So, I've posted them in my Picasa space and you can link to them at http://snipurl.com/itexpo.