After Tokyo, the second-to-last stop on this trip around-the-world is in Budapest, Hungary.
The purpose for our being here is to do an exploratory site visit for the 2008 Bentley International Partner Summit (to date, we have not decided exactly where that will be, but it is likely to be somewhere in Central Europe). This event is where we come together with Bentley Channel and Technology Partners for a…
(this is a recap, of sorts, for when we visited Tokyo for DevCon 2006 in November, 2006)
After we completed our sessions to DevCon 2006 Japan attendees, we had a couple of days before returning to the US. Besides visiting our offices in Ikebukuro (mainly to catch up on various things and communicate SELECT Server XM Edition to our colleagues there), we were able to take in some of what Japan has to offer.
Speaking of Water, water everywhere..., the next stop on this round-the-world trip lands us in Tokyo, where DevCon 2007 Japan is taking place. We narrowly missed Typhoon Fitow (the name means "beautiful fragrant flower" in a Micronesian language), which passed to the north of Tokyo two days before we arrived. The rain has pretty much continued since arriving... sometimes in very heavy downpours, which is a bit unusual…
With the difference in time back with the home office, we were able to take advantage of the down time between the end of the day and start of the next to do some site seeing. Our colleagues in China organized a trip to a place called Huangguoshu Waterfall, which is a two-hour drive (take or give) west of Guiyang.
The waterfall is part of a National Park and is the largest of its kind in China, as well…
The Greater China BE Meeting and Bentley Partner Conference 2007 event is taking place this week in Guiyang, China.
If you have never been to Guiyang before, it is to China what Kansas City is to the US -- smack dab in the middle of the country. It is a three hour plane ride from Beijing (for those like me traveling from the US, that is in addition to the 13+ hour flight to Beijing over the North Pole …