* Breaking news from SunNetwork Berlin * News wrap-up from Comdex, CD Expo * Links to upcoming trade shows * Links to free Network World Technology Tours
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After the excitement of Comdex (well as much excitement as one can muster considering everyone’s budgets) we look forward to the new year and another batch of trade shows. First up is the International Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas Jan. 8-11. Some 2,300 exhibitors have signed up and are eager to show off all their latest and upcoming gadgets that you can ask Santa for in 2004. Among the big-name keynote speakers are Dell CEO Michael Dell, HP CEO Carly Fiornia and Microsoft Chief Software Architect Bill Gates.
This is the last Trade Show newsletter this year but we’ll be back in January. We wish you and your family a wonderful and safe holiday.
* News from SunNetwork Berlin:
Sun pushes Java software with new pricing, 12/03/03
Sun Wednesday released two bundled packages of Java software – one for desktops and one for servers – along with pricing moves intended to bolster its position in the Java software market.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1203sunnetwo2.html?nl
Sun needs to shed light on strategy, 12/01/03
As Sun prepares to kick off its first major European conference in Berlin this week, analysts signaled that if the company wants local users to bask in its particular brand of computing, Sun needs to shed light on how its new low-cost turnaround strategy fits in with an increasingly varied product line.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1201sunshed.html?nl
* Comdex Las Vegas 2003 wrap-up:
Smaller Comdex alive and well, organizers say, 11/24/03
Perhaps the most telling comment about last week’s Comdex Fall 2003 was overheard between two airport shuttle drivers. “What is Comdex?” one asked.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1124comdexside.html?nl
Finding gold at Comdex, 12/01/03
Unlike trade shows such as the Consumer Electronics Show or the CTIA mobile phone extravaganza, Comdex generally tends to be low on the “cool stuff” radar screen. Still, if you look long enough and dig through the maze of vendors, you’ll find a few gems. Here are some we found:
https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2003/1201cooltools.html?nl
More SOHO storage choices, 11/24/03
It’s not just wishful thinking; the home server/storage market really is taking shape.
https://www.nwfusion.com/net.worker/columnists/2003/1124kistner.html?nl
Security of handhelds far too lax, experts say, 11/24/03
Traversing the carpeted walkways of the Las Vegas Convention Center last week, Caleb Sima looked like many other programmers at Comdex: young, lean, laid-back and with a taste for earth tones.
What was less apparent is that he also has a penchant for uncovering new security threats.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1124comdex.html?nl
* CD Expo Las Vegas wrap-up:
Cisco exec: SANs too expensive for SMBs, 11/20/03
Networks that pool together storage resources may be common in the enterprise, but their cost so far has kept them from being deployed in more than 10% of small and midsized businesses, said a Cisco executive speaking at the Computer Digital Expo conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday.
https://www.nwfusion.com/net.worker/news/2003/1120cdxpocis.html?nl
* UPCOMING TRADE SHOWS:
International Consumer Electronics Show
Jan. 8-11, Las Vegas
LinuxWorld
Jan. 20-23, New York
https://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn
Lotusphere
Jan. 25-29, Orlando, Fla.
New to Lotusphere is IBM’s On-Demand Workplace.
https://www.lotus.com/events/govfor.nsf/wdocs/lshome
Comnet
Jan. 26-29, Washington D.C.
https://www.comnetexpo.com/comnetexpo/V40/index.cvn
* NETWORK WORLD TECHNOLOGY TOURS (free registration):
WANs: Answering the Demand for Optimized Services
Dec. 9-11 at a city near you
“Maximize the value.” “Focus our spending.” “Get it done now!” It’s crunch time for WAN managers. The snap-back of budgets and the sting of expectations now demand new answers from you. Solutions like identity-based services. Bandwidth optimization. VoIP that works. VPNs that fit. True WAN benefits that are evident, effective, efficient and excuse-free.
It’s time for WANs: Answering the Demand for Optimized Services, the new Network World Technology Tour event focused on: disciplined bandwidth management, caching and compression. Optimized services that run over your established infrastructure. Access you can control, partition and protect. Metered monitoring you can evaluate in real time. And standards that finally deliver long-delayed benefits to VPNs and VoIP.
To register for this event:
https://www.nwfusion.com/events/wan/
VoIP: From dollar one to dollars won
Jan. 27-Feb. 5 at a city near you
It’s magical. The moment when data, voice and video integrate across your network and suddenly the benefits become real. Employees more connected. Information more accessible. Customers more satisfied. Your company more productive. And you more valuable. Ready to turn the potential of IP telephony into the promised profits that drive enterprises. It’s the instant when VoIP ceases to be an investment and starts to become an asset. And it begins at the first Network World Technology Tour event of 2004.
VoIP: IP telephony from dollar one to dollars won is a transforming, one-day, four-city, information-rich opportunity for anyone involved in the deployment and management of enterprise voice technologies. It’s the industry’s only event on IP telephony that provides both strategic vision and practical applications.
To register for this event:
