re did microsoft buy xhibition in article may vpbuild vp com jessea u me vp com jesse w asher writes i ve been getting mail from xhibition about the june conference and i was wondering if microsoft had bought xhibition the front says conference from microsoft windows nt developers what s the deal i thought x hibition was for x windows jesse w asher yes xhibition is for the x window system the x window system conference remains the largest and most complete conference devoted to x nineteen full and half day tutorials and thirty six technical sessions over three days provide huge amounts of information for x application developers add vendor exhibits and a product presentation track to provide information on what folks can purchase today and you have a complete show focused on x speakers at xhibition include bob schiefler lu abel mark ackerman paul asente doug blewett donna converse jim fulton oliver jones keith packard ralph swick doug young and many others xhibition is growing fortunately for us and we have added some additional conferences surveys that we have given have indicated additional topics of interest these include object oriented technologies such as the object management group s orb and corba c as it applies to x client server technologies such as dce threads databases object oriented and relational and not surprisingly when you look at the audience windows nt with the bulk of the xhibition audience and the unix community developing applications for in house or custom use a new bit operating system from a player as large as microsoft needs to be evaluated with ms windows on so many desktops and the price of computing power dropping its successor needs to be evaluated as corporations begin to look at nt so must their developers and suppliers the mission of the xhibition technical conferences is to provide information to the application developer and to the technology planner the nt conference at xhibition is designed to do just that we worked with microsoft to provide the only conference this year specifically designed to show x and unix developers the capabilities of windows and nt if you aren t sure that nt has what you need for your application development or systems deployment this is the place to find out ask the folks from microsoft get them to show you what you need conference attendees will receive nt software development kits to bang on evaluate and generally to see for yourself i hope this doesn t sound like an nt commercial it should sound like an xhibition commercial i just want to reiterate that the xhibition audience is growing and xhibition is growing along with it the industry is a confusing place at the moment with unix cose nt dce corba and all of the other acronyms sprouting up xhibition can help sort out the confusion aub harden technical program manager harden ics com x h i b i t i o n the conference and trade show for corporate software development broadway cambridge ma windows on distributed computing june san jose ca xhibit ics com uunet ics com xhibit voice fax presented by integrated computer solutions inc
