Computing's Joanne Wallen previews CeBIT, the world's biggest IT fair which starts next week. Hundreds of thousands of visitors. IT and telecoms vendors from over 60 countries. More than 7,500 exhibitors in 26 halls ... Get on the next plane to Hanover - it's time for the largest computer fair in the world.
Users may not have time for it, analysts and journalists try to avoid it like the plague, and the residents of every German hamlet within 100 miles of Hanover would probably sell their grandmother ...
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