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BY NETWORK WORLD STAFF
IBM this week at Comdex is set to unveil services designed to help users more quickly adopt and better maintain Web services across their legacy and distributed applications.
"We are going to give real examples of real customers doing real Web services, beyond the stage of experimenting," says Michael Liebow, IBM vice president of Web services for IBM Global Services. "[Comdex] is a good opportunity to show customers how Web services are going mainstream."
Once the high-tech world's most popular trade show with upward of 220,000 attendees and 2,000 vendor exhibitors, this year Comdex organizers expect between 40,000 and 50,000 attendees and about 500 exhibitors. And unlike other years, Comdex will face competition in Las Vegas as Jupitermedia hosts its Computer Digital Expo at a hotel just down the road from the convention center.
Show planners insist they have no problem with the event getting smaller and presenting a more tightly focused IT lineup.
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