Comdex’s Past May Be Its Biggest Obstacle to Survival

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The corporate IT community appears not to have gotten the message that Comdex/Fall is being recast as a
scaled-down event focusing exclusively on IT professionals. And that’s bad news for show organizers who are pinning the event’s survival on the new
direction.

A Computerworld poll of several dozen IT professionals last week indicated that respondents still perceive Comdex as being too big, too glitzy and too
out of touch with the needs of corporate IT to warrant their attendance. Many were not aware of the following developments:

Link: computerworld.com