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Thursday October 22, 3:56 pm Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: ZD COMDEX & FORUMS
Compaq Computer Corporation and
Ziff-Davis Announce Activities at
COMDEX/Fall '98
Eckhard Pfeiffer Keynotes Main Session; Compaq Sponsors IT Executive
Symposium, Provides Backbone for COMDEX Intranet
NEEDHAM, Mass., Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Ziff-Davis (NYSE: ZD - news) today announced that
Compaq Computer Corporation will contribute to two major programs at this year's event and, in
addition, Compaq Chairman and CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer will speak as part of this year's keynote series.
COMDEX/Fall '98 runs November 16-20, 1998, at the expanded Las Vegas Convention Center, the
Sands Exposition and Conference Center, and the Las Vegas Hilton.
Eckhard Pfeiffer, President and Chief Executive Officer of Compaq Computer Corporation, will address
COMDEX/Fall '98 attendees at a boxed-lunch keynote on Monday, November 16, at 11:00 a.m. in the
Barron Room of the Las Vegas Hilton. Since assuming overall responsibility in 1991 for directing
Compaq's corporate strategies and operations worldwide, Mr. Pfeiffer has led the company through a
highly successful turnaround and revitalization that Fortune magazine called ''a classic case of
corporate comeback.'' In the space of four years, he has transformed Compaq from the No. 5 to the No.
1 ranking in worldwide PC industry market share, most recently with the acquisitions of Tandem and
Digital from a PC to the world's second largest computer company.
Compaq will also co-sponsor the IT Executive Symposium, a unique program produced jointly by ZD
Events and the Yankee Group that examines today's most pressing issues from the CIO viewpoint. John
T. Rose, senior vice president and group general manager of Compaq's Enterprise Computing Group,
will keynote on Monday, November 16, at 9:30 a.m. The symposium will help participants increase the
efficiency and productivity of their business, facilitate better access to data to improve decision-making
and improve their company's flexibility and agility. Attendees will also break out into nine vertical groups
to cover strategic IT issues and asset valuation strategies that are industry-specific. The program begins
at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 15 with an executive golf outing, followed by an evening cocktail
reception and VIP seating at the Sunday night Bill Gates keynote. The conference program runs on
Monday, November 16, and Tuesday, November 17, at the Sheraton Desert Inn in Las Vegas.
Compaq, in partnership with Novell and COMDEX, will be featuring server-based hardware solutions as a
component of the COMDEX Intranet: Novell Connecting Points, a complimentary messaging service
located directly on the show floor. The service provides attendees, speakers and media with their own
COMDEX user account to access email, the Web, plus a stream of up-to-the-minute event information.
The COMDEX Intranet: Novell Connecting points, representing the world's largest live single-directory
network, has been nominated for a prestigious Computerworld Smithsonian Award in the category of
Business & Related Services.
COMDEX/Fall is an important marketing event for us,'' said Enrico Pesatori, senior vice president,
Marketing at Compaq. ''The event provides us with an important forum to communicate our vision to the
marketplace.''
Along with advances from Compaq, attendees will also experience the latest technology product
offerings in vendor pavilions throughout the exhibit floor, including the Computer Associates Partner
Pavilion, the Microsoft Partner Pavilion and the Novell Partner Pavilion, as well as a COMDEX/First
Pavilion for emerging businesses. Other pavilions throughout the Las Vegas Convention Center and
Sands Exposition and Convention Center showcase solutions for other key technology challenges, such
as the Year 2000 issue, Internet telephony, e-commerce, multimedia, knowledge management, infrared
data, and Linux, to name a few. Over 2,400 companies, including Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, Intel,
NEC, Philips, Toshiba, 3Com, Lucent, Cisco, Bay Networks, Sony, and Lernout & Hauspie, will exhibit
at COMDEX/Fall '98. For a complete listing of exhibitors, visit comdex.com.
''Each year, more and more information technology companies from around the world attend
COMDEX/Fall because they see a definite value in being at the event,'' said Bill Sell, General Manager
of COMDEX. ''The direct involvement of a company such as Compaq, once again proves that
COMDEX/Fall is truly where the IT industry chooses to do business.''
Each year, COMDEX/Fall presents the world's largest and most influential information technology event.
The event will host more than 2,400 exhibiting companies, over 10,000 new product launches and
220,000 resellers and corporate decision makers. The COMDEX/Fall '98 Conference will feature industry
experts in over 100 conferences, focusing on real solutions to leverage technology investments, build a
networking infrastructure, implement an Internet and Intranet strategy, and other critical business areas.
Plus, every attendee receives free admission to the keynote addresses.
The COMDEX/Fall Keynote line-up also features: Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft Corp [Nasdaq:MSFT -
news].; Jeff Papows, president of IBM's Lotus Development Corp.; Larry Ellison, chairman and CEO of
Oracle Corporation; Charles Wang, chairman and CEO of Computer Associates; Craig Barrett,
president of Intel Corp.; Rick Thoman, president and COO, and John Seely Brown, Xerox Chief
Scientist, Xerox Corp.; and John Sidgmore, CEO of UUNET Technologies and vice chairman and COO
of WorldCom, Inc. The COMDEX/Fall '98 keynote series is co-sponsored by Ziff-Davis, Forbes and
Forbes ASAP.
For up-to-date information on COMDEX/Fall '98, including keynote schedules, conference information
and descriptions of the pavilions, visit comdex.com or contact Amy Groden at 781-433-1756
or amy_groden@zd.com. For media registration visit: events.comdex.com.
About ZD Events
ZD Events is the world's leading producer of information technology events, with products ranging from
the IT industry's largest exhibitions to renowned educational programs, custom seminars and
specialized vendor marketing programs. It brings together the high-profile, high-impact COMDEX and
WINDOWS WORLD brands with the educational focus and depth of NetWorld+Interop, Seybold
Seminars and other leading industry events. ZD Events serves more than 5,000 exhibiting companies
and two million attendees through over 50 events in 18 countries. These events have revolutionized the
way computers are bought, sold and distributed. ZD Events is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ziff-Davis
Inc.
About Ziff-Davis
Ziff-Davis is a leading integrated media and marketing company focused on computing and
Internet-related technology, with principal platforms in print publishing, tradeshows and conferences,
online content, market research and education. The Company provides global technology companies
with marketing strategies for reaching key decision-makers. |
