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To: Windseye who wrote (33534)9/28/1998 2:01:00 PM
From: Dorine Essey  Respond to of 97611
 
Highlights to the Internet

View Live Webcast Of Remarks To Internet Service Providers (ISPs) By John
Sidgemore (UUNET), Marc Andreessen (Netscape), Don Listwin (Cisco), And
Industry Writer John Dvorak

WELLESLEY, Mass., Sept. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- TSCentral and Compaq Computer
Corp. (NYSE: CPQ) will join forces as exclusive providers and sponsors of
streaming video webcast services to bring to the Internet, highlights of the
Fall '98 ISPCON show -- the only conference dedicated to Internet service
providers (ISPs). ISPCON Fall '98 runs from Sept. 29, 1998 -- Oct. 1,
1998, at the San Jose Convention Center with webcasts on
tscentral.com .
In collaboration with Digex, the ISP that is hosting the webcast and show
sponsor Mecklermedia, TSCentral and Compaq will provide production
services and technology to webcast live, the opening session of the show
and will make eleven additional sessions available online, on demand.
TSCentral, which maintains one of the most active webcasting and events
industry resource sites on the Internet, will provide project management,
media production, and on-site technical crews.
"Making a project like this work requires a pooling of many differing
talents," said TSCentral vice president of sales and marketing, Irwin
Grossman. "Our webcasting production experience and Compaq's advanced
technology combine to bring these important events to a much broader
audience. This open exchange of information benefits everyone."
TSCentral and Digex will use Compaq's Deskpro EN Model equipment and
expertise to encode Web-ready video at the event. All presentations will
be available for 60 days following the conference. All webcast
presentations will be available for on-demand viewing from tscentral.com
and digex.net starting Tuesday, September 29, 1998 and will be archived
for 60 days following the conference. Starting with a live broadcast of
the opening session, webcasting will proceed according to the following
schedule:

Tuesday -- September 29, 1998 (all times PST)

9:00 a.m. -- 12:00 p.m. Opening Session
John Sidgmore, President, UUNET

John Listwin, Executive Vice President,
Service Provider and Consumer Lines of
Business, Cisco Systems Inc.

Marc Andreessen, Co-founder and Executive
Vice President, Products
Netscape

John Dvorak, Writer & Commentator
1:30 p.m. -- 2:30 p.m. VPN's: Using Security to Leverage Additional
Opportunities,

4:30 p.m. -- 5:30 p.m. Integrating UNIX and Windows NT in an ISP
Environment

Wednesday -- September 30, 1998

8:00 a.m. -- 8:45 a.m. Keynote: Enabling the next wave of ISP Growth,
Mark Linsche, Director, Internet and E
Commerce Solutions, Compaq Computer Corp.

10:00 a.m. -- 1:30 a.m. ISP Commerce Site Hosting,
1:30 p.m. -- 2:30 p.m. The ISP as a Local Media Outlet,
4:00 p.m. -- 5:00 p.m. Alpha Server Product Futures

Thursday -- October 1, 1998

1:30 p.m. -- 2:30 p.m. LDAP Directories a Real World Example

2:45 p.m. -- 3:45 p.m. How to build the Value of Your ISP and Sell
it for a Profit,

2:45 p.m. -- 3:45 p.m. Setting Up Your Own AltaVista Search Site for
Your Customers

4:30 p.m. -- 5:30 p.m. Lights Out or Remote Management in an NT
Server Data Center

4:30 p.m. -- 5:30 p.m. High Availability/Scalability Web Application
Architectures

Details on all presentations will be posted at
tscentral.com beginning Monday, September
27. To access the webcasts, visitors to www.tscentral.com should click
on the Broadcast Center icon on the home page, then click on the ISPCON 98
link, which appears along with links to other broadcasts on tscentral.com.
Because a RealAudio RealPlayer or Microsoft NetShow player is needed to
view the webcast, links to free player download sites are provided.
Formerly known as Trade Show Central, TSCentral is the leading
Internet-based provider of information, products, and services for the
trade events industry. Event organizers, sponsors, exhibitors, service
providers, and attendees regularly utilize TSCentral to participate in
events efficiently and to help generate additional business opportunities
and revenue. Based in Wellesley, Mass., TSCentral's homepage is
www.tscentral.com .

SOURCE TSCentral
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/CONTACT: Betsy Gartner of TSCentral, 781-235-8095, ext. 231,
bgartner@tscentral.com or John Nero of Leary & Tiziani, 781-575-1140,
jnero@learytiziani.com/
/Web site: tscentral.com
(CPQ)

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To: Windseye who wrote (33534)9/28/1998 3:55:00 PM
From: rudedog  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 97611
 
Doug -
It almost sounds like the final merger into a common OS is about to happen. Or the merger will involve some major translation modules so that the OSs will be transparent to all who are using them.
Very savvy observation. I think the trend seems to be more the second than the first. The ability to develop applications that don't care where they run has been the 'holy grail' for a long time. That was the premise of Java 'run anywhere' but most agree that interpreters are too slow to ever make the promise come true.

But a strategy which uses object technology, middleware and common APIs to make the underlying OS 'invisible' benefits users of any of the operating systems that play by the rules. All new applications benefit from the cross-platform strategy, and old applications continue to run as before. If CPQ can pull this off it will be a huge win for them and for the industry.



To: Windseye who wrote (33534)9/28/1998 4:05:00 PM
From: Aitch  Respond to of 97611
 
Hi Doug,

John Rose refered to Microsofts "Common Object Model" which I expect will cater for the latter of your two scenario's to a certain extent....

I do not have too much detail on COM at this stage. I might be misinterpreting it totally, of course.

Maybe someone else on the thread could give us a synopsis...

Regards,

H