It is amazing that I start to write about DATE 05 trip after 15
month passed. Thanks to the creation System Design Frontier Blog, now I
could write down any topics I wanna dress anytime anywhere in anyway,
whether I am at the office, or on the road. Before that, it was
impossible for me to speak up since the Guest Editorial (now called
Kluwer Academic Publisher Editorial) pipeline was almost always full.
We also call it the power of ubiquitous publicity, without the
Internet, it is hard to imagine that that one night I update my blog
based on my exhibition experience during the day at a trade show
Anyway we arrived at Munich two days before the opening of DATE 05
since it was our first time traveling to Germany. Once we get to the
Best Western hotel located just a few blocks away from Munich’s Central
Station, we found we made a mistake - we should use Munich’s advanced
subway/light-rail system instead of renting a car, which is both
expensive and difficult to drive. One who has not been to downtown
Munich cannot understand how small the roads are in downtown Munich,
and how long those street names in German are. Fortunately, the highway
system in Germany is not that bad, and as the only country in the
world, there is not speed limit driving in German highways. However, I
did not understand the big signs with Ausgang in German stands for, I
suddenly realized it is Exit in English, looks like English is still
not ubiquitous, at least in Germany. BTW I met with Kevin, VP of Denali
Softare, right on one of the breakfast tables at downtown Best Western
Munich
We spent one week in Germany, it was a great experience both
business-wise and personally, except I was stopped by a policeman in
green uniform driving a green police car at downtown Munich,
fortunately he did not write me a ticket after I showed him my CA
driver license. That trip led us to exhibit at CeBIT 06 one year later,
and I gonna describe our Hannover experience in just a few days, so
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