Posted by
ryuzaki0
on from the its-not-about-money-its-about-stupid dept.
jgeelan writes "That's the verdict, anyhow, just posted on its main page by SYS-CON Media." Let's be realistic, does anything important really ever
happen at COMDEX? The only thing I've ever got out of attending COMDEX is a
horrible flu.
personally i stopped bothering to sign up with them because i got more spam from them then any other 'legit' convention so far.
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Re:spam
by
Anonymous Coward
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I don't know about Comdex Vegas, but Comdex Toronto has been in a death-spiral for several years. It got so bad in 2001 that almost none of the "major" vendors showed up apart from Microsoft. I.e. no IBM, Apple, Dell, Corel, HP, etc.
Comdex Toronto has largely become a "computer fair" with the booths that sell end-of-life software and previous versions of software books, etc.
I don't know what Comdex Toronto 2002 was like - I purposely stayed away as it took 3 days to get the stink of impending death out of my coat after the previous one.
I haven't been to a Comdex for over 2 years and I still get spam mail from them.
The last Comdex I went to (Chicago), I did manage to pick up some nice swag, including several Linux distro CDs, so it wasn't a total waste...
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Exhibitions in the time of the Internet
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jmerelo
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Well, at least in Comdex you get the chance to smell, weigh, shake, and look under the things that are available mostly anywhere in the web. But the plain truth is that attedance to trade fairs is going down anywhere; the same happened in SIMO, the spanish Comdex (if there's such a thing), which happened a short while ago. Product presentations are mainly done outside them, so it does not make a lot of sense to go to a trade fair to see booth after booth of computers, laptops, palmtops or whatever is the rage that year.
COMDEX Opens with Smallest Attendance Ever
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hottoh
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The first Comdex had about 10k people.
I think more than 10k people attended the first day.
Re:Location is a problem
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wfmcwalter
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My former employer (large computer company) would regularly hold sales
meetings which worldwide sales employees of a given division would attend.
Because of the distribution of staff around the world, it was pretty
obvious that the meetings should occur either on the west coast of the
US or in Hawaii.
They learned through bitter experience that the controllers regarded
Hawaii as "junket city" and San Jose as "get work done city", and so
they could only get stuff approved for San Jose. This dispite the fact
that flights to San Jose were at least as expensive as those to Hawaii,
and hotel accomodation (for several hundred people, for a week) was
considerably more expensive.
So the meetings were always in San Jose (or some other hideous Silicon
Valley heckhole), at twice the price their Hawaiian equivalents would have
been.
Comdex 95
by
Mittermeyer
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I was at Comdex 1995.
*Microsoft was just rolling out Win95, *the Newton fanatics were having their last lovefest, *Sony demoed DVD, *Novell told us our refrigerators were going to be hooked up to a network, *PowerPC had a tent with actual applications but an air of desperation about it, *Lotus Notes was pushing it's relatively new thing, *Citrix was trying to sell people on physical Winterms, *no one knew how to spell internet, *SSA disks were introduced, *the K-series of processors were coming, *the Alpha motherboard hackers held court, *and there was one teeny tiny Linux booth with the most kickass demo there.
So in other words Comdex is a place where you can see the past, present and future if you have the wits to look for and recognize it. But you will still get your butt kicked by surprises.
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personally i stopped bothering to sign up with them because i got more spam from them then any other 'legit' convention so far.
mov ax, 13h
int 10h
Well, at least in Comdex you get the chance to smell, weigh, shake, and look under the things that are available mostly anywhere in the web.
But the plain truth is that attedance to trade fairs is going down anywhere; the same happened in SIMO, the spanish Comdex (if there's such a thing), which happened a short while ago. Product presentations are mainly done outside them, so it does not make a lot of sense to go to a trade fair to see booth after booth of computers, laptops, palmtops or whatever is the rage that year.
It's just a BloJJ
The first Comdex had about 10k people.
I think more than 10k people attended the first day.
Because of the distribution of staff around the world, it was pretty obvious that the meetings should occur either on the west coast of the US or in Hawaii.
They learned through bitter experience that the controllers regarded Hawaii as "junket city" and San Jose as "get work done city", and so they could only get stuff approved for San Jose. This dispite the fact that flights to San Jose were at least as expensive as those to Hawaii, and hotel accomodation (for several hundred people, for a week) was considerably more expensive.
So the meetings were always in San Jose (or some other hideous Silicon Valley heckhole), at twice the price their Hawaiian equivalents would have been.
## W.Finlay McWalter ## http://www.mcwalter.org ##
I was at Comdex 1995.
*Microsoft was just rolling out Win95,
*the Newton fanatics were having their last lovefest,
*Sony demoed DVD,
*Novell told us our refrigerators were going to be hooked up to a network,
*PowerPC had a tent with actual applications but an air of desperation about it,
*Lotus Notes was pushing it's relatively new thing,
*Citrix was trying to sell people on physical Winterms,
*no one knew how to spell internet,
*SSA disks were introduced,
*the K-series of processors were coming,
*the Alpha motherboard hackers held court,
*and there was one teeny tiny Linux booth with the most kickass demo there.
So in other words Comdex is a place where you can see the past, present and future if you have the wits to look for and recognize it. But you will still get your butt kicked by surprises.
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