Re: [Fsfe-uk] Upcoming Exhibitions

[Richard Smedley]

On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 17:35, Phil Driscoll wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 February 2003 4:05 pm, Chris Puttick wrote:
> > I've been and it's horrid - to get any attention you need a central stand,
> > professionally turned out and plenty of slick sales people. Preferably then
> > everything needs an enormous pricetag on it so the heads et al are
> > impressed. You'd do better at NAACE  - which is tomorrow :-(
> >
> > BETT is just too much about money to get a look in unless someone with some
> > cash (~£25k) is prepared to back the effort. IBM for tea anyone?
> 
> A friend of mine who until recently was managing director of one of the big 
> shiny companies with a stand in the central area at BETT did a costing, and 
> if you divided stand and staff costs by the opening hours of BETT, it cost 
> them 3UKP per second to be there!


Thanks for that Phil - I think that the
nails are now firmly in the coffin of 
that idea ;-/

Nice to see a flurry of activity on the
list, anyway :-)

- Richard

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