Organisers have given up running what used to be the largest tech trade show.
CeBIT, in Hannover, was popular once, although not loved by hacks who christened it Snowbit on the grounds that it was always cold and had all the picturesque colour of the Slough Trading Estate.
CeBIT once boasted 850,000 visitors a year, but those days have gone the way of the dodo.
Onuora Ogbukagu of Deutsche Messe AG which ran the show said that “There will be no more CeBIT in Germany in the future.”
CeBIT was once considered the best barometer of technological trends, and during the dot-com boom in the late 90s and early 2000s hacks had to go. However, that number has been declining for years, despite trying to cultivate a ‘fun fair’ atmosphere.
Deutsche Messe CEO Jochen Köckler said that because of the perceived overlap between CeBIT and the Hannover Fair, which covers all aspects of industrial technology, CeBIT will continue to exist in some form as part of the larger trade fair.
Many figures in the tech industry were worried that the end of CeBIT would see Germany’s limited influence on the tech sector decline even further.
