CeBIT Australia, Sydney 2005
I went along to the CeBIT exhibition down at Darling Harbour to check out what is happening in the World of IT. To be frank I was very disappointed. Luckily it didn’t cost me a thing… but I wish I could get back the 2 hours of my life that I spent looking at the lame vendor exhibits.
A few vendors there were offering Content Management Systems (CMS). Some of them looked like blatant rip-offs of Plone. But then if another business was wanting to pay what the vendor was asking for, then serve them bloody right! Especially when they can use a far more superior open source product.
The most fascinating thing at CeBIT this year was the Laserpod, which looks like an aluminium spaghetti tin with a cheap laser pointer inside, and topped with a plastic dome. That pretty much summed up the stuff on display at CeBIT… cheap, tacky stuff that you can build yourself.
Better luck next year.
