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In the assessment of the answers to the question of opinion for the competition in February 2001 ("Will you visit the CeBIT?") Carsten Schroeder wrote in conclusion:
»I was quite surprised at the low interest in CeBIT among participants. Not just because of the possible presentation of the first AmigaDE products this year, but because I had thought that the biggest fair in the world would have a high positional value among Amiga users, too. But this seems to be a misjudgment, perhaps because CeBIT has more and more gained the image of a "Professional Fair" over the last few years.«
I believe, Carsten, I do have to defend us, the seemingly uninterested.
Certainly we do not stay away because of indifference, no more than the "Professional Fair" image discourages us. But it is the sheer size of the whole event. If something like this happened on a more comprehensible scale, I would go there, as I do to the much smaller and moderate Amiga fairs.
In Hannover there are 25 to 30 halls, more than 8000 exhibitors vying for attention. If you stay the whole week (this a private visitor cannot afford anyway), you would have to visit more than one hundred exhibitors per hour! Does this make any sense? Just over half-a-minute for each exhibitor?
So I'd rather try to read the surveys offered in the papers and switch on or record the special transmissions on TV. There are teams busy, which were able to prepare for the most important objects. If I went there, I probably would not even find the Thendic booth!
Gernod Schomberg <g.schomberg@t-online.de>
[Well, I should not see as the meaning and the purpose of a visit to the CeBIT trying to look at all the exhibitors, but just those which are of (especially high) interest to the visitor. And as long as their number is not too high, in my opinion this can easily be done in one day at the show. It is the unique charm of the CeBIT that nearly all the renowned computer companies are present at a single event; Note of the editor-in-chief]
