Today, DevExpress held its inaugural Webinar on XtraReports. It was a great success, but, unfortunately, some of you were unable to access the event and received an error message stating that the room was full.
We don't have enough resources in-house to host such an event, and so we use an outside company for the purpose. All of these companies sell "blocks" of connections as part of the package. Since we completely underestimated the number of people who were interested in such a webinar, we didn't pre-purchase enough blocks. At the start of the webinar, we were more than twice over-subscribed and of course we tried to purchase extra blocks of connections. Unfortunately we were limited in that as well (these companies are value-adders, essentially reselling blocks from other primary companies), with the result that many people were unable to attend the webinar.
It goes without saying that this was not the experience we were trying to achieve. We thought we'd get a certain number of people, bought more connections than we needed, but in the end got many more attendees than we'd ever imagined in our wildest dreams. Nevertheless, the whole webinar was recorded and will be made available as soon as it's been properly rendered.
Update: The recorded Webinar is now available on the DevExpress Channel: http://tv.devexpress.com/XtraReportsWebinar1.movie