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.
Things I learned at Comdex
by
91degrees
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· Score: 5, Insightful
1. Networking was going to be big
2. Networking was going to be overvalued
3. The bubble was about to burst.
Don't know about the rest of you, but I made over $2 million just through going to Comdex. I think this was money well spent.
I've also learned that the business people know as little as the rest of us about where things are going. Thir guesses are never right. They might make some good guesses about what market will do well, but its almost always for the wrong reasons.
The Web has largely made technology shows obsolete.
There's nothing new out there.
The latter can be squarely blamed on the fact that the computer industry has become hostile to new ideas. Everything's gotta be the same old humdrum PeeCee stuff. Ten years ago, everyone was trying out new ideas. Nowadays, nobody wants to try anything new because there's no hope of making any money -- all good ideas are promptly stolen by Microsoft, Intel, Dell, Cisco, etc.... who can do it bigger and cheaper.
Is it any wonder that the only part of the tech world where change is really happening, is in the open source universe? Where the business rules don't apply?
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1. Networking was going to be big
2. Networking was going to be overvalued
3. The bubble was about to burst.
Don't know about the rest of you, but I made over $2 million just through going to Comdex. I think this was money well spent.
I've also learned that the business people know as little as the rest of us about where things are going. Thir guesses are never right. They might make some good guesses about what market will do well, but its almost always for the wrong reasons.
- The Web has largely made technology shows obsolete.
- There's nothing new out there.
The latter can be squarely blamed on the fact that the computer industry has become hostile to new ideas. Everything's gotta be the same old humdrum PeeCee stuff. Ten years ago, everyone was trying out new ideas. Nowadays, nobody wants to try anything new because there's no hope of making any money -- all good ideas are promptly stolen by Microsoft, Intel, Dell, Cisco, etc.Is it any wonder that the only part of the tech world where change is really happening, is in the open source universe? Where the business rules don't apply?
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