I personally don’t see this as a good exhibition anymore. Few to no vendors time releases or announcements around CeBIT (at least CeBIT Australia) these days and in fact many of the majors don’t even attend anymore. The likes of Dlink, Netgear, Google, IBM, HP, etc. no longer attend the show.

In fact, I would hazard a guess based on a quick walk around the exhibition that half the floor space is government funded/supported as pavilions – the German pavilion, Korean pavilion, Australian pavilion, etc. I think the huge increase in this type of floor space shows that the exhibition is becoming commercially unattractive – companies are only interested in exhibiting if the costs are reduced in this manner.

Perhaps I am too harsh as someone who has to spend 3 days of my time talking the same schpiel to a thousand people, but I do think the show is becoming more and more irrelevant.

Employers would much rather have employees research for free rather than pay to go. that is why events such as CeBIT will slow down, particularly when as mentioned all the information is up for free on the net, you just have to find it. and usually you dont need to dig too deep for it either…