I've been asked by a few people why we decided not to attend this year's roundtable. We've been very disappointed with the 2008.3 release (the problems that it created, the lack of a documented test plan and release certification checklist/sign-off, missing feature documentation and general lack of product responsibility) and decided to make a statement that Arena needed to focus its attention on their core business first.
We made this decision several months ago shortly after the 2008.3 release prior to knowing about the two things that will be announced at the roundtable. I'll be commenting on these two things immediately as the news breaks on Monday morning.