1992 Developers Competition Update

"Fire All of Your Guns at Once!"

120 Software developers from all over the world will travel to
North Carolina on October 9th and 10th, to compete for cash and
software prizes.

       $10,000 in cash prizes.  $150,000 in software/hardware prizes.

Sponsored by:  Artful Applications, SofDesign International,
Computer Associates, Data Based Advisor Magazine, Tri-Link,
Midnight Engineering Magazine, Allen Marketing, MDBS, DataEase
International, Sinc, Softsystems, Zachary Software, dLESKO,
Concentric Data Systems, Black & White, Proworks, Borland,
Evolution Trading, Burton Systems Software, Microrim, Clarion,
Knowledge Information Systems, Matesys, Slawson Communications,
Icarus, Blink, Soft.Letter, Symbiotic, Rowe Software, Ganahl
Software, Dvorak Software, Advanced Revelation and Microsoft. 
Audit services provided by Ernst and Young.

Competing:  More than 50 teams have signed up including teams who
will be using:  Clipper (14), Advanced Revelation (4), "C" (3),
Cobol (2), OMNIS (2), FilePro (2), KnowledgMan, FoxPro, Advanced
dbMASTER, Oracle, 4th Dimension, Basic 2.0, DataEase, Paradox,
dBASE IV, R:BASE, Clarion, MAGIC, GenSys 2, Blinker, Funcky,
NetLib, Zachary, GRID, Artful Lib, BecknerLib, AllClip, Tlink, and
UI2 and many more!  

Panel Discussion:  Top representatives from Microsoft, Borland, and
Computer Associates will speak on trends for software developers. 
User Groups:  Get in the action by doing your own local competition
before the national competition.  Send the winner!  Concurrent On-
Line Competition on CompuServe:  Next best thing to being there. 
We are setting up means to allow those who can't travel to compete
against other on-line competitors to win cash and prizes.

Held in conjunction with Software 92:  A business seminar with
workshops for matters relating to software: legal, marketing,
personnel, exporting and many others.  Sponsored by the largest
entrepreneurial council in the US.  Sponsors can make the best use
of their time by giving a seminar or user group presentation at
Software 92 and then exhibiting at the competition.

For more information on the competition, download DCMP92.ZIP from
the CompuServe DBA forum, Library 1.  It contains the proceedings
from the 1991 competition, rules, last year's competition, plus
everything else about the competition.

P.S.  Call 919-383-9749 now if you want to compete.  Applications
for the competition are being accepted.  Contact the 1992
Developers Competition at 1816 Front Street, Suite 130, Durham, NC
27705.                                                             june92.wp