Comdex Kool-Aid Fantasy

Michael Gartenberg | March 29, 2005, 05:27 PM

Alan called this a while ago and nailed it correct back then. Comdex is dead and it's doubtful it will be coming back. Too many other things have already supplanted it.

The Comdex folks today announcedthat the Comdex tradeshow is taking another 12 month vacation (making it 24 months) or rest cure, but that it will be back in 2006. I can only presume that the team that runs MediaLive (the owner of the dead Comdex show) must think we are all on Jim Jones' Kool-Aid if they think anyone in the world believes that Comdex will ever run again.

The news story linked above indicates that the "Comdex space" at the Las Vegas Convention Center is now rented out. I see that Computer Associates is running its own tradeshow during the erstwhile Comdex week. Thus if Comdex did manage to run again in 2006, I doubt it would be in Las Vegas. But then this assumes that a Comdex show would have girth. So on second thought it probably could fit into the lobby of the local Starbucks about two blocks away from the LVCC.

[Alan Meckler]