Or maybe they could have sold consumer stuff, I mean at least 2 times there was the consumer version of CEBIT. But instead of buying things (with exceptions tho

Or maybe they could have sold consumer stuff, I mean at least 2 times there was the consumer version of CEBIT. But instead of buying things (with exceptions though!), you only get flyers or get install discs of Unix derivates. And of course you could look at the amazing new tech, sometimes things only useful for large enterprises. I imagine that business relationships emerged from that. But then with IT moving more into commodity, even when it's about servers, there is no need for this mode of presentation. But for the conference style this would have worked.