CeBIT Opens In Hannover

European digital industry trade fair takes green IT as its keynote for 2008.

The CeBIT exhibition opens today in Hannover, Germany, with green IT as its keynote. It’s an issue that’s been raising its head more and more lately,and the exhibition will be looking at ‘Business Solutions’, ‘Public Sector Solutions’, ‘Home & Mobile Solutions’ and ‘Technology & Infrastructure.’   There will be almost 6,000exhibitors from 77 countries, with the largest presence coming from China. Ernst Raue, on the Board of Deutsche Messe AG which hosts the exhibition, said,  “China has now overtaken Taiwan for the first time in the history of CeBIT as the largest foreign exhibitor region, with 500 exhibiting companies. Many hardware manufacturers are shifting theirproduction from Taiwan to China.”   CeBIT runs until March 9.