sxn@eng.sun.com (Steve Nahm) (09/25/90)
For the hard-core ONC/NFS developers, distributors, hackers and fanatics, the 1990 ONC Conference is drawing near: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 1990 ONC/NFS Industry Networking Conference for licensees and developers of ONC/NFS-based products will be held October 9 at the Le Baron Hotel in San Jose. If you are a licensee of ONC/NFS source code, or are involved in developing distributed applications based on ONC/NFS technology, please come to this event. As in previous years, the Conference is divided into technical and marketing tracks. Technical sessions will be presented by engineers from Sun as well as such companies as Unisys, Control Data Corp., and Legato. Topics will include: -- enhancements to ONC/NFS including Kerberos authentication -- improving NFS performance -- specialized interfaces to RPC -- the PC-NFS daemon and DOS 3.1 file locking -- ONC and network management Marketing sessions will include presentations from Sun and selected software developers and users on why and how they are using ONC. Topics will include: -- ONC and PC LANs -- Market implications of ONC/NFS on mainframes -- Upcoming ONC marketing events, including UniForum -- Growing the market for ONC-based distributed applications The keynote speech will be given by Dr. Douglas Engelbart of Stanford University. Dr. Engelbart, a computer industry visionary whose contributions include the mouse, hypertext and idea processing, will discuss his current research, known as the Bootstrap Project. The vision of this project is to push the frontiers of information management, hypermedia, groupware and organizational evolution with the goal of bootstrapping organizations into the 21st century. The conference is timed for Interop week to allow participants to attend the ONC/NFS conference on Tuesday October 9, and then attend the Interop Exhibition, which runs October 10-12. Sun will send all conference attendees complimentary tickets to the Interop Exhibition. TO REGISTER Sun employees wishing to attend should send email to Dennis Freeman at dennisf@Corp. Space may be limited. For non-Sun employees, the conference cost is $120. The registration fee includes conference materials, continental breakfast, lunch and evening reception. Non-Sun employees can register and receive further information by calling (415) 388-2814 between 9:00am and 5pm PST. -- Steve Nahm sxn@sun.COM or sun!sxn