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"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"
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<H2>CeBit'97, March 13-19</H2>
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<H4>By Belinda Frazier, Associate Publisher <I>Linux Journal</I></H4>
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<A HREF="./photo2.html">CeBIT Photo Album</A>
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CeBIT is the world's largest computer fair, bringing together
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vendors and attendees from many different countries.
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If you picture landscaped fairgrounds with 27 halls for vendors
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and even more auxiliary buildings with stores and restaurants
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and then add 650,000 people to the picture, all visiting the location
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over seven days, you are starting to get an image of CeBIT '97.
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CeBIT took place in the Messegelande in Hanover,
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Germany, March 13th to 19th, 1997.
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This was my first time attending CeBIT, and my goal was to
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look at the Linux vendors and possibly talk about Linux to vendors
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whose software already runs under other Unix platforms. I also
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wanted to see what such a huge computer fair would be like and
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contrast it to the US's largest computer fair, Comdex, in Las Vegas,
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which I have attended the past seven years.
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My first stop was Hall 11 to visit Caldera, Inc.
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Caldera's booth was easily recognizable as a Linux booth because
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of "Tux" the penguin, (well, a stuffed rendition of Tux) sitting on top
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of one of the monitors.
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Caldera's booth was crowded with people every time I visited it.
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Attendees were interested in Caldera's OpenLinux products and
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getting information about Linux and Linux products.
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The 1500 <I>Linux Journal Buyer's Guides</I> given away by Caldera and
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their affiliated booths during CeBIT also seemed to be a hit with
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attendees.
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Caldera also provided information about OpenDOS 7.01,
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which is free for non-commercial and educational use.
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Caldera's booth staff talked about recent announcements such as the
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upcoming port of Netscape software to OpenLinux, and the port
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of StarOffice 3.1 to OpenLinux.
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A German television station, Bayerischer Rundfunk, filmed
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a short TV show about Linux at the Caldera booth.
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The "TV host" Jurgend Plate warmed up for a few minutes while the
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film crew continued to set up equipment.
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Before they started filming, after
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I identified myself as the Associate Publisher of Linux Journal,
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Jurgend hollered to me that LJ was "das beste Magazin auf der Welt!"
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I was told by Sebastian Hetze of LunetIX, that Jurgend Plate had been
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excited about Linux for years, and that his exuberance over Linux
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was real.
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A second Linux stop for me was at the large Star Office booth
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in Hall 2 that demonstrated among its many different ports,
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StarOffice on OpenLinux.
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At the third Linux stop, the large Software AG booth,
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there was a signpost saying
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Datenbanktechnologie and the second sign down said "ADABAS & LINUX".
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Tux sat proudly on top of the workstation here by the Caldera
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OpenLinux Base. Nathan Guinn gave me a free review copy of the single-user
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version of Caldera's ADABAS, an SQL Database, which I passed
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along to the Editor of Linux Journal.
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A fourth company with a Linux product was NAG Ltd,
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which among its other products, provided information on
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their Linux Fortran 90 Compiler.
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Other companies, such as LST Software, GmBH and LunetIX had
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representatives at the show, mostly working out of Caldera's booth.
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There was some press coverage about Linux. In the special CeBIT
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section of the Newspaper called "COMPUTER & KOMMUNIKATION" there was
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a full-page article titled "Linux schultert Microsoft-Anwendungen"
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which covered the capability of Microsoft Applications to run
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under Linux using Caldera's Wabi software.
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All in all, CeBIT was an informative, busy, intensive show.
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Next time I should like to try it without crutches resulting from a sprained ankle.
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I should also mention the color shows and performances in some booths,
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including a musical story (D2-Musical) with
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"Princess Digital, the Queen of the World", the artistic acrobats
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at VIAG Interkom and many cabaret-style performances, which added
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fun, colorful and entertaining diversions to CeBIT.
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<center><H5>Copyright © 1997, Belinda Frazier <BR>
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Published in Issue 16 of the Linux Gazette, April 1997</H5></center>
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