Penton pointed out that while 140 dot-coms went bust last year, that's out of a pool of 17,000 that were funded in 1999. One of the differences in this show is the lack of new faces. The ones he has seen are much more low-key. Now, the concern is profitability. However, lead manager of Microsoft product Angus Norton, who was showing off elements of the company's upcoming .Net technology to a sizable crowd, thinks trade shows in general are suffering, independent of the economy.
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