Summit

nks to everyone who responded to my earlier inquiry regarding the Enterprise Management Summit. Several people asked for e-mail replies when I got the info. Enough people that I decided to post it back to the groups that helped me get the details. I have gotten some information from them which I am attaching to this posting. From what I can tell it looks very promising. It appears to have a solid technical program. The shootout in the Theater should be quite interesting. Also, I understand that they have set up strict rules for the exhibitors in the showcase, so that it is a quiet, professional atmosphere, rather than a carnival (e.g., people in a vendor's booth must be their employees - no actors, no models, no gorillas, etc.). All in all, it appears to me that they are doing it right. For those who want more information, I'd suggest calling them (415-512-0801) - they are very helpful, glad to answer questions, not at all pushy.

**Announcement**
The Enterprise Management Summit '94 will be held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, November 14-18, Santa Clara, California. This conference and exhibition will present solutions for managing the ever growing, ever more complex enterprise management Monster. There will be 36 technical sessions addressing the full spectrum of enterprise management (networks, systems, applications, and databases) and two full days of tutorials. In addition, there will be over 40 exhibitors.

Featured will be an Enterprise Management Theater with a live enterprise network that includes: SNA, DECNet, NetWare; Systems like MVS, VMS, DOS, UNIX; Windows, NT, desktops, distributed applications and databases. During Summit '94, we will let the Monster go crazy, causing nightmares like traffic congestion, alarm floods, broadcast storms, applications that hang mysteriously, lost host connections, locked terminals, forgotten passwords, etc. We then ask leading vendors to fix what we broke. Vendors will NOT be allowed to give demos in the theater. Rather they must make all the nightmares go away. A live audience will evaluate how successful each vendor is.

Our goal is to make this theater as realistic as possible and minimize the sales hype. We would appreciate any comments you may have that will help us accomplish this goal. Please direct your comments to Summit '94. Phone: 1-800-340-2111. (Outside the US, 415-512-0801. Fax: 415-512-1325. Email: emiinc_at_mcimail.com.

You may also obtain information and an Advance Program at the above numbers. Received on Fri Oct 07 1994 - 05:21:41 CET