Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 01:29:46 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Brett Glass" <brett@lariat.org>, <jgrosch@mooseriver.com> Cc: "Joey Garcia" <bear@unix.homeip.net>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Anyone going to Comdex next week? Message-ID: <009301c16b5c$91458460$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20011111163454.042359d0@localhost>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Brett Glass >Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 3:52 PM >To: jgrosch@mooseriver.com; Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: Joey Garcia; questions@FreeBSD.ORG; chat@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: Anyone going to Comdex next week? > > >At 03:04 AM 11/10/2001, Josef Grosch wrote: > >>Might be fun some other year if someone else was footing the tab, the price >>of hotel rooms and everything else doubles for Comdex, > >Though it's nowhere as high as it was in the show's heyday. COMDEX >peaked about 4-5 years ago and has been shrinking, making it more >manageable. There are enough empty rooms that one can get a good >deal. > Interesting you would say that. I think there's a serious point there. At one time the industry was totally dependent on advances coming from commercial software and hardware companies, if you had something new and cool then the badge of admission was showing it at Comdex. Today, the existing hardware is so good that there's not the drive to upgrade as soon as the new stuff is available, so that removes a lot of the reason of attending these trade shows for hardware people. And, also today, GNU and Free software is more and more important, and Windows and other commercial software is getting less important, and the new cool things in software aren't being introduced by people like Apple, Microsoft and IBM anymore. Instead they are being introduced by user communities around FreeBSD and Linux. It would be even more interesting to plot a graph of Comdex attendance and overlay it with a graph of Linuxworld (or whatever the big Linux tradeshow is) I wonder if there would be an inverse relationship there? Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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