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CeBIT Opens with 5845 Exhibitors

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 This year China (500 exhibitors) overtakes Taiwan (490) for the first time in CeBIT history as 3005 exhibitors come from outside Germany in 2008.

“Green IT” is this year’s theme and Hannover’s own green thumb (and late bookings) boosted the number of exhibitors at CeBIT to an impressive 5845 exhibitors. Everyone expected a larger drop from the 6153 exhibitors in 2007. “Since January the situation has developed much better than we had been expecting,” says Ernst Raue, Board Member of Deutsche Messe.

CeBIT 2008 offers a new concept based on four major categories: Business Solutions, Public Sector Solutions, Home & Mobile Solutions, and Technology & Infrastructure. The Climate Savers Computing Initiative hopes to reduce IT's CO2 emissions from computers by 50% from 2007 to 2010. The group, led by Dell, HP and Lenovo, and other PC makers, will show energy-efficient IT concepts in a special "green village." Climate Savers held a news conference to unveil the environmental efforts of some companies. But for every action, there is an opposite and equal reaction: a Greenpeace event the next morning focused on disclosing IT makers' use of pollutants.

Go CeBIT’s Green This Year