With the sudden departure of Kevin Roach two weeks ago, and the news today that Rockwell has let go Rick Dolezal, their manager of process industry marketing and the public face of Rockwell's Process Systems User Group (PSUG) one cannot help ask questions about Rockwell's continuing commitment to the process industries. Rockwell has been being consistently beaten up by the analyst community for pouring "excessive" amounts of money into R&D and acquisitions that some analysts have seen as "ill-conceived" and even "wrong-headed."

From the press release from Rockwell:

Kevin Roach to leave post as VP/GM of Rockwell Software

Kevin Roach and Matt Bauer held a press conference this morning after Roach's "executive address." I guess an "executive address" is what you give when you've hired Alvin Toffler to give the "Keynote Address" tomorrow...

This is the 11th RSTechEd conference...and has 1600 registered attendees, above 60% of whom are customers, from 48 countries. There will be 400+ training sessions, on over 1200 computers...a veritable love fest of virtualized training. There are also 25 "manufacturing industry ...