Unix Solutions, the new exhibition that Comdex owner the Interface Group is putting together for later this year, could turn out to be the biggest first-year show the organisers have ever staged – even though initial expectations of 200 to 250 exhibitors has been pared internally to a more achievable 125-150. So far about 70 companies have said that they would come, according to show manager Ron Scott, including IBM, Lotus, Bull, Unix Software Operation, Unisys, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, Uniplex, Fourgen, Sequent, Sequoia and Pyramid. And Interface is hoping to attract some 50,000 to 60,000 attendees, including folk from Europe and the Pacific Rim, brought in from a direct mail and advertising campaign that’s about to break. Framingham, Massachusetts-based Interface still has a number of key exhibitor accounts to land that have either been sitting on the fence waiting for their competition to make the first move or simply looking over their budgets, but there is still plenty of time between now and the show, scheduled to take place October 3 to 5 in Anaheim, California, for Interface to sew them up.
