It is not to deny that this exhibition has recently lost much of its value. The reasons may vary. The main reason seems to be that the people who attend this exhibition, often don’t correspond to group that is interesting for exhibitors.
My experience shows that it is because too many people who only come to the exhibition because of pure curiosity. This problem is of course not new, but each time, before the opening of the exhibition, I think about if it still makes sense to me, to visit this exhibition. Although I have a possibility to go to Hannover and visit CeBIT and return home for only 20 €. It is possible because I’m a student of IT and our university offers those trips. However, I really do not want to join me to this large amount of bargain seekers or bored seniors.
I find it quite interesting, to talk with Sun people personally in touch and lern about new features of their products. The lectures on Visual C ++ in MS I also find useful too.
To the point, the partner country of this year is California. This means that there are many companies of Silicon Valley will be there.