Bad signs for the PC / IT sector

Ghosthunter · Post by **Ghosthunter** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 10:48 pm

I went today to the PC Expo they have every year in NYC at the Jacob Javitts center.

I have been going to the tradeshow for the past 6-7 years.

Every year has been pretty good, all the big vendors, from Microsoft/IBM/Dell/Intel/HP/Palm and all the rest you can think of and plenty of others you havent heard of usually have exhibits, give you free tours and free demos of upcoming products, usually free gifts as well, and lots of hot women because the vendors know us PC guys love hot women next to our PC's so always have them demonstrating everything

Anyway my point was...this year was horrible. There was no big vendors there at all except for IBM, everyone was absent, only about 30% of the space was taken up at all.

I asked what happennd, and they said many vendors just didnt want to show.

Really bad...dont look good for the IT world.
I have never even seen the show like this.

Immortal · Post by **Immortal** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 10:50 pm

Perhaps it's just a business life cycle?

I hope it comes back.. everyone needs it!

Roody · Post by **Roody** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 11:57 pm

Originally posted by Immortal
Perhaps it's just a business life cycle?

I hope it comes back.. everyone needs it!

downhill · Post by **downhill** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 12:00 am

Micron projects the first money making quarter in a long time for their last quarter this year.......

They have been wrapping money around their memory chips before shipping for a long time..

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 7:37 am

I'm wondering if the show being so close to 9-11...in NYC...may have put a damper on things.

Ghosthunter · Post by **Ghosthunter** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:01 am

Originally posted by YeOldeStonecat
I'm wondering if the show being so close to 9-11...in NYC...may have put a damper on things.

Maybe, the odd thing is they have always had it in June

For some reason this time for the first tiem they had it in September

Even Intel wasnt there, but AMD did show

Mondiol · Post by **Mondiol** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 4:28 pm

A propos, here´s an article from the Harvard Business Review, quite a long read but IMO worthwhile. The gist of it is that the IT has become a commodity, hence it no longer is a strategic advantage for companies.
linky link

That and the worldwide recession, but whatever....

Mondiol.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Wed Sep 17, 2003 5:25 pm

Originally posted by Ghosthunter
Maybe, the odd thing is they have always had it in June

For some reason this time for the first tiem they had it in September

Hmm....not knowing the city well, anything that would have affected JJC for June? Wondering why, if they always had it in June, they switched to Sept. September being a tough time for many to travel for a bit (school and family adjustments from that being one reason)