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Rise in attendance at International LinuxTag

Businesswire India

Posted: Tuesday, Jun 03, 2008 at 1213 hrs IST
Updated: Tuesday, Jun 03, 2008 at 1213 hrs IST


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Berlin, June 3: : pleasant surprise. For example, we had a top executive of one of the world's largest management consultancies on our stand. As far as we are concerned LinuxTag was definitely worth the visit."

Elmar Geese, Managing Director, tarent, Bonn: "From our point of view it was worth it in every respect. We established numerous new business contacts, including from abroad. We also met highly qualified people from projects, who can help improve our business prospects. It is striking that more and more projects have a commercial side to them."

Mahender Nandikonda, Executive Director Qvantel (India): "Berlin is the right place in Europe to hold such an event. It was our aim to expand our network with companies and projects, goals we were able to achieve. We welcome the specially organised Mobile & Embedded Area' at LinuxTag. We hope that as a result the event will become even more business-orientated."

Jaqueline Rahemipour, Project Manager, de.OpenOffice.org: "With eighty people participating our two-day OpenOffice.org conference was extremely well attended. We had numerous conference visitors interested in business, who were curious to find out about OpenOffice.org 3. It always fascinates me that at LinuxTag the community aspect and business go hand in hand."

Peer Oliver Schmidt, trade fair team, LinuxMCE project: "LinuxTag ensured that many people now know what LinuxMCE is about. The fair made it possible for us to show numerous visitors that LinuxMCE consists of 20 per cent media and 80 per cent home automation, building security, telephony, using a regular PC interface. The visitors in Berlin were most enthusiastic about the possibilities."

Peer Jochen Topf, trade fair team, OpenStreetMap project: "To us the many visitors on our stand were a positive surprise. It was great to be able to demonstrate the OpenStreetMap innovations of the last months at this venue. Coming into contact with other projects such as KDE Marble or FlightGear has given us the opportunity to widen distribution of our open card data."

Rise in number of exhibitors from abroad

With around 100 companies participating, LinuxTag in Berlin has consolidated its standing as Europe's marketing platform for open source software. The number of professional companies attending increased by almost 30 per cent over the previous year. Nearly one in five of the companies on display came from abroad. There was substantial interest in LinuxTag 2008 in the USA. Among the international partners who took part in LinuxTag 2008 were IBM, Nokia, Novell, Oracle, Red Hat and Sun...

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