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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100
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Back from CeBIT...
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    Yesterday I have been to the CeBIT, without any long planning before. But
    indeed I was a bit disappointed this year. Ok, the CeBIT has not been the
    techy thing it was in former times, but there were some interessting
    things to see. This time I saw/heard nothing I did not now before. :(
    Maybe it were some unlucky circumstances. It was "students day" - nothing
    against students, really! - but most of them did not know a bit of IT and
    just wanted to see "consumer electronics". The boothes of all well knowen
    hardware companies (Intel, AMD,...) had only raffles and no IT and most
    other booth owners were so unmotivated because they expected just
    "students"... Maybe it was because of the last CeBIT day over all...

Yesterday I have been to the `CeBIT`__, without any long planning before. But
indeed I was a bit disappointed this year. Ok, the CeBIT has not been the
techy thing it was in former times, but there were some interessting things to
see. This time I saw/heard nothing I did not now before. :( Maybe it were some
unlucky circumstances. It was "students day" - nothing against students,
really! - but most of them did not know a bit of IT and just wanted to see
"consumer electronics". The boothes of all well knowen hardware companies
(Intel, AMD,...) had only raffles and no IT and most other booth owners were
so unmotivated because they expected just "students"... Maybe it was because
of the last CeBIT day over all...

Beside that I talked to some interessting people, like some from `Sun
Microsystems`__, `IBM`__, `OpenOffice.org`__, `Heise`__ and to `Klaus
Knopper`__. Nice to meet some geek people and to have some nice talking about
further technology and marketing plans. Not to forget some information needed
for my work, from `Citrix`__ and surrounded companies... Only thing I forgot
was to ask Micro$oft, why the Windows sources I downloaded could not be
compiled properly using the GCC! ;)

Nevertheless, I won't go again at the last day to CeBIT. Most companies
started to abolish their boothes at 16:00 and there were only very few, very
closed booth parties. :( Maybe I should stick to specialized fairs like the
`PHP Conference`__, `Linux Tag`__ or `Linux World Expo`__...

.. __: http://www.cebit.de

.. __: http://sun.com

.. __: http://ibm.com

.. __: http://openoffice.org

.. __: http://www.heise.de

.. __: http://knopper.net

.. __: http://www.citrix.com

.. __: http://www.php-conference.com

.. __: http://www.linuxtag.org

.. __: http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/


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- Morten Blinksbjerg Nielsen at Fri, 26 Mar 2004 03:10:35 +0100

  Yes, it was a shame that people started closing there boothes so soon, and
  that the booth turned into a mad markedplace...

- Toby at Fri, 26 Mar 2004 07:38:05 +0100

  And I got the feeling the sales people get more and more each year, but no
  more competence people there... :(