Regular readers will know that we’re exhibiting at ESS 2006 for the first time this year. We arrived yesterday and set up the stand - with a few minor glitches - and were ready to go at 09:30 this morning.

Surprisingly, for me at least, people were in the door at this time and gradually filtered through the bigger companies to make their way to our stand at the back right of the exhibition, and, it turned out, it wasn’t until around 15:30 that the number of visitors tailed off.

We had a diverse range of people come up to us and we had some fairly in-depth chats on variant management and how pure::variants addresses this problem. We were also able to introduce some people to the concept and the fact that there is a tool that now solves this problem.

I expect tomorrow to be slightly busier than today as there is stream on model-driven development and attendees at this stream may have a stronger software interest and may also be more receptive to the idea of using feature modelling for variant management.

One day down, one to go.