No Comdex-purse this year
Ever was Comdex the most important IT-purse in the world, about that from the viewpoint of the Americas. Falling visitors numbers and little interest by exposanten mean however that there this year in November no IT-celebration in Weld Vegas takes place.
The number of visitors at the Comdex-purse was the last years walked back strongly. In 2001, the attacks of 11 September and a disappointing economy brought the aboutripe on a low point as for visitors: the purse got only 125,000 visitors about the floor. There were then 1,400 exposanten. In heyday day of the Comdex, on average 200,000 visitors came show up
The cry of largest IT-purse in the world sounded then actual already false, for the CeBIT-purse in the German Hannover got easy five turn so much people about the floor. Besides must be observed that the German aboutripe much more broadly goes then 'pure' computer technologies and also a spot gives at businesses that services and telecomproducten offer.
On own bottom, Comdex got Consume Show (CES) always more competition of the Electronics, that takes place in the spring also in Weld Vegas. Moreover CeBIT made remained the visitors numbers grant single years ago the crossing to New York - already temporarily free.
With exhibitors, there was to be taken then also little zest yet part at the Comdex-purse. Many of them gave the preference at CES or on specialized, regional purses, as Computex in Taiwan. Large names as an IBM, Intel and Dell dropped out in the voorbije years already.
The absolute low point was last year, when the aboutripe only 40,000 visitors and 550 exposanten attracted. Also Comdex 2004 appeared the same fate allocated to be. And that is too little, judge the organizers MediaLive International. They speak temporarily normally of “a delay until 2005″.
The expocompany will reflect now on a new direction for Comdex; it is helped near it by an advice council with members of AMD, EMC, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle and Samsung. Otherwise are not the regional versions of Comdex in Brazil, Greece, Saudi-Arabi, Scandinavi and South-Korea transported.