“With some 7,500 exhibitors spread out over 408,839 square
meters of floor space in 26 halls, the show can lay claim to the
title of the world’s largest IT event. Despite its mammoth size,
however, the show maintains a distinctly German flavor. Although
the exhibitors come from all over the world, with the Taiwanese
contingent topping the list of international exhibitors, more than
two-thirds of the 698,000 visitors that attended CeBIT last year
came from Germany….”
“Linux also will boast its own pavilion this year, where
users can chart vendors’ progress in turning out applications based
on the open-source operating system. Besides the likes of Red
Hat Software and SuSE, lesser-known names such as Finnish Linux
distributor SOT Finnish Software Engineering will be there. The
company is showing the final English-language release version of
its Linux distribution, promising that it will “dispel the myth of
Linux as a server-only operating system,” according to a company
statement.”