Australian IT Show A Three-Ring Circus 03/06/00
Newsbytes, Monday, March 06, 2000 at 22:25
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, 2000 MAR 6 (NB) -- By David Frith,
Computer Daily News. Australia's information technology (IT)
show season gets under way today, with the opening of
Australian Exhibition Services' (AES') triple-banger event at
Sydney's Darling Harbour complex.
Running concurrently are IT2000 (previously know as the
PC-IT show); the inaugural Linux Open Source Expo; and the
ASPCon 2000 conference for the emerging applications
service provider (ASP) industry.
The organizer is forecasting 250 exhibitors at IT2000, including
sometime show holdouts IBM [NYSE:IBM] and Compaq
[NYSE:CPQ] among the bigger guns. PC vendor Gateway
[NASDAQ:GTE] there, too, but not Dell [NASDAQ:DELL],
Toshiba, Sun [NASDAQ:SUNW] or Oracle [NASDAQ:ORCL].
Chipmaker Intel [NASDAQ:INTC] is again major sponsor and
local boss David Bolt gets to make the opening keynote.
The show has had a shrinking attendance in recent years: a
claimed 47,000 in 1997, 40,000 in 1998 and just 35,000 last
year. But AES says the quality is up, with fewer "nerds and
tyre kickers", thanks to the business focus. And this year
numbers will be swollen by the two additional events.
There's a more international flavor to the Linux bash, with
keynotes from Red Hat [NASDAQ:RHAT] Chairman Robert
Young and Silicon Graphics Inc. [NASDAQ: SGI] Chairman/Chief
Executive Officer Bob Bishop.
The three-ring circus runs until Friday.
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