andrew@uel.uel.co.uk (Andrew Josey) (02/14/89)
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER CONFERENCE The unification of earlier releases of UNIX System V and the SunOS, Berkeley, and XENIX systems into one open and standard operating system represents a turning point for the entire software industry. The Software Developer Conferences for UNIX System Unification will be the first public viewing of the new System V Release 4.0 features. At these conferences, software developers will learn how to take advantage of new features like OPEN LOOK user interface, networking, and ABIs to develop applications. These conferences are being sponsored by AT&T's newly formed UNIX Software Operation and will be delivered in Europe during April and May. Details follow on conference objectives, target audience, topics, schedule, and who to contact to get further information or to register. CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES Our primary objective for the conference is to encourage software developers to migrate to a single UNIX System standard -- UNIX System V Release 4.0. These software developers can include independent software vendors (ISVs), value added resellers (VARs), original equipment vendors (OEMs), and large end users which act as internal ISVs to their own company. In short, people who develop software for resale to others. AUDIENCE We want UNIX developers within software development organisations. The agenda is technical in orientation and assumes that the attendees know UNIX. CONFERENCE THEME The Worldwide Open Industry Standard UNIX System V Release 4.0 TOPICS Basic Operating System Services New/changed commands, real-time scheduling, asynchronous I/O, signal handling, the virtual file system, STREAMS enhancements, interprocess communication, internationalisation, Standards compliance (POSIX, ANSI C, XPG). Application Development Environment Programming tools, ANSI C migration, shared libraries, dynamic linking, extensible linking format Networking Remote resource sharing (RFS, NFS), DARPA and BSD networking, client/server model, Remote Procedure Call mechanism, External Data Representation, Transport Layer Interface, Sockets compatibility User Interfaces OPEN LOOK, merged X11/NeWS server, OPEN LOOK X and NeWS Development Environment toolkits, and other elements of the UNIX System V Graphical User Interface Architecture System Operations, Administration, and Maintenance Software installation and removal, Configuration management, backups and restore, administrative user interface, Distributed file system administration Application Binary Interfaces Definition of, formats and environment, and how to use SCHEDULE Date Location April 13-14 Frankfurt 25-26 London May 9-10 Paris REGISTRATION/INFORMATION For registration information please contact: AT&T UNIX Europe, phone: +44 1 567-7711 International House, fax: +44 1 567-2420 Ealing Broadway, e-mail: ...!mcvax!ukc!uel!sdc-request London W5 5DB, UK telex: 914054 UNIXTM G