I attended two different conferences this week, one located in San Francisco and the other hosted in Las Vegas. While one conference was filled with upbeat attendees, the other event was clouded by economic uncertainty.
It was quite literally a tale of two cities — and two industries. While San Francisco and the broad IT industry worries quite a bit about the economy, attendees at the Kaseya User Conference in Las Vegas were generally upbeat about their business prospects.

Kaseya CEO Gerald Blackie says the company has no debt, no venture capital and absolutely no plans to pursue an initial public offering (IPO). Why stay private in the rapidly expanding managed services market? Blackie provided some thoughts June 1 during a poolside chat with me at the Kaseya User Conference.




