Last week, Hewlett-Packard France SA staged a company exposition and conference, Les Masters HP, which was held in La Defense, and drew almost twice the number of participants as the company expected: with its last conference (for developers) having attracted only 500 people last summer, the company expected the broader-themed Masters show to receive between 2,000 and 3,000, but at the end of the second day, the number of useful visitors totaled 5,061, the company said; at least in France, the tendency toward single-company shows seems on the upswing, with Oracle Corp having sponsored a successful one last November and SAP AG planning its own event for this spring.
