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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Gail DeLano
Shepherd*Merrill Communications Group
408.761.1953
FAX 761.0372
MCI 531.9565
Fern Leaf
Miller Freeman, Inc.
415.905.2540
FAX 905.2222
Compuserve 72263,1524
Expanded Business Software Solutions Conference Signals
Industry Evolution and Change
San Francisco, CA - June 17, 1993 - The Hynes Convention
Center in Boston is the
site of the Business Software Solutions conference, which will be
held August 23-27. Formerly known as the Windows & OS/2
Conference, Business Software Solutions was purchased by Miller
Freeman, Inc. in September, 1992, and has been repositioned and
refocused to be industry representative rather than platform or
product specific. While the event will continue to explore the two
key desktop graphical environments, Windows and OS/2, it has
been expanded to include emerging platforms, such as NT,
UNIX, Taligent and Next.
During the past few years, corporations have begun to move
many key corporate tasks from mainframe and stand alone
personal computers to graphical applications among networked
workgroups. Often this quest for "rightsizing" and the
empowering of end users leads to frustration for companies, as
many key corporate applications run on various operating
systems, networks and platforms. For the most part, vendors
have fallen short of providing true interoperability with their shrink-
wrapped applications. Today's corporate developers, end users
and systems integrators all face the challenge
of tying these disparate applications together to create true
enterprise-wide solutions.
The Business Software Solutions conference has been completely
rebuilt in order to fully address these problems. In place of it's
previous vendor-panel-based agenda, the conference now provides
a variety of one-hour lectures and two-hour workshops
on mission-critical issues such as selecting the right GUI-based
solution; designing client-server systems; building and managing
cross platform networks; integrating applications using OLE and
DDE and implementing new technologies like groupware, email,
and image processing.
Attendees can select the sessions that fit their needs from five new
conference tracks - Developing Workplace Solutions, Training
and Supporting End Users, Connecting the Workplace,
Managing: The Big Picture and Implementing New Products and
Technologies.
Individual sessions address the diverse concerns of desktop
solutions providers - from Windows to Macs, to remote
workstations, to new GUI platforms. Employees seeking real
world solutions to their workplace problems will find answers at
Business Software Solutions.
In addition to the conference sessions, both one- and two-day in-
depth tutorials, as well as a Decision Makers Summit on Client-
Server Computing are being offered during the week.
Remarking on the changes in the conference, Group Show
Director KoAnn Vikoren commented, "The repositioned Business
Software Solutions will become the technical event for builders
of desktop software solutions for the workplace because it
meets a real and growing need to provide corporate decision
makers with an objective view of the options facing them as
they seek to become more competitive through the better use
of software."
All conference sessions are taught classroom style by industry
experts such as:
Peter Coffee, Advanced Technologies Analyst, PC Week
Brian Livingston, President of Windows Consulting
Amy Wohl, President, Wohl Associates
Christine Comaford, President of Corporate Computing, Inc.
...and dozens of others.
Key input from the Business Software Solutions advisory board,
which includes
Bill Machrone, VP, Technology, Ziff-Davis Publishing
Michael Miller, Editor-in-Chief, PC Magazine
Stewart Alsop, Editor-in-Chief, InfoWorld
Frederic S. Langa, Editorial Director, Windows Magazine
David Needle, Editor, Computer Currents
Brian Moura, Assistant City Manager, City of San Carlos
Randy Dugger, Microsystems Analyst, Tandem
...continues to help shape this educational event.
Miller Freeman, Inc., (MFI) the owner and producer of Business
Software Solutions and the concurrently running Software
Development '93 Conference & Exhibition, is one of the fastest
growing publishers in the world. The company has grown in
sales from $80 million to $220 million in the last 3 years. MFI
publishes 17 high-tech magazines and produces numerous trade
shows from its San Francisco headquarters.
For more information about Business Software Solutions, contact
Miller Freeman at 415.905.2784.