Rise in attendance at International LinuxTag

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Berlin, June 3: : LinuxTag is attracting greater attention than ever before. This year 11,612 visitors from 31 countries came to Berlin to visit Europe's largest event for Linux and open source software, around 18 per cent more than last year. The number of visitors from abroad was 12 per cent higher than the previous year. Professional users, experts and interested visitors from all over Europe, Africa, Asia and North America were gathered at the international meeting place for business and the community, which ended last Saturday.

More than 200 companies and independent projects took part in the 14th LinuxTag. One of the most important trends is an increasing degree of cooperation among projects from different areas, so that their work can produce user-friendly solutions. The home entertainment solutions of MythTV and LinuxMCE which were presented in Berlin build on the results of the FFmpeg and MPlayer projects.

Oliver Zendel, Chairman of LinuxTag e. V.: "As an enthusiastic cyclist I was particularly fascinated by the Obico bicycle computer which uses free software. I was also able to try out the Openmoko Freerunner for the first time. Holding the device in one's hand is a completely different experience to merely reading about it on the web."

The keynote delivered by kernel maintainer Dave Miller was also very well received by visitors to LinuxTag. Presenting the subject to users, he outlined the technically complex development of a kernel in easy-to-understand terms. Afterwards one of the largest public meetings of kernel hackers took place. More than 20 developers discussed future Linux developments with the audience.

Jens Heithecker, Director at Messe Berlin GmbH: "Increases in attendance and business, that is our summary of LinuxTag 2008. Once again the last few days have shown that bringing an internationally networked Linux community and commercial exhibitors together is a recipe for success. Following the success of the first CIO summit we will also be organising this meeting for IT decision-makers at next year's LinuxTag."

Comments by exhibitors on LinuxTag 2008

Terri Molini, Spokeswoman of Sun Microsystems (USA):

"For us LinuxTag is a great platform for introducing new products and meeting the community. During the last few days we met a great many interesting visitors at the fair. From our point of view the event was a great success."

Cecile Maindron, Marketing Programs Manager, talend (France):