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Date:	Tue, 7 Sep 1999 01:43:25 PDT
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
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Subject:	SCOUG-General: The OS/2 Topics At Warp Expo West

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Note from Peter Skye: This is a copy of the press release we
distributed today to the news media.

Contact: Rollin White (Rollin@scoug.com)
1-562-596-5121 office

Tuesday, September 7, 1999

Press Release - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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The OS/2 Topics At Warp Expo West

No matter what your interests, no matter what your needs, you'll miss
important information if you miss Warp Expo West.

Take a look at some of what you'll get on show day, September 18:

MULTIMEDIA AND GRAPHICS: An entire OS/2-based home entertainment
center -- video capture and playback, audio, editing, CD audio transfers
to your hard drive and back again, format conversions -- on stage with
multimedia expert Jerry Rash, and he'll show you the utilities to use
(including the free ones), the drivers you'll need, and how to set up
the OS/2-based multimedia system of your dreams! And Don Baker, the
expert on inkjet printing, will show you how to get images that look
like photographs (we've seen him do it!) from your inkjet printer.

ROUNDTABLE: The roundtable discussion titled "IBM: The New Strategy
To Control The Worldwide Desktop" with Peter Coffee of PC Week, Esther
Schindler of Sm@rt Reseller and Alan Zeichick of Camden Associates (and
OS/2 Magazine's former Editor-In-Chief) is guaranteed to give you an
eye-opening insight into the good things and bad that lie ahead for
OS/2. These three careers filled with experience and insight will fill
the auditorium with crucial information you'll need for planning your
OS/2 future.

NETWORKING: Networking guru Steve Schiffman will present "Designing
Your Home Network", including connecting your machines together,
installing the drivers, the available software (some of it free), and
using just one internet connection to service all of your networked
machines. Then Hugh Dashbach and Michael Elliott will showcase Linux
And OS/2, a demonstration of how to make these two very different
operating systems work seamlessly together.

WEB SITES: Two XML sessions by Bill Schindler, Editor of OS/2
Extended Attributes, will bring you quickly up to speed on this new
language of the internet and get you started on writing your own XML
pages. Plus Web Site Management and Netscape Composer Development
seminars from Dr. Virginia Hetrick cover the problems that web site
administrators face, the solutions, management of growth, and the
fast-track approach to creating great looking web pages using the free
Netscape Composer.

DATABASES: Relational databases from the basics to the exotic are
thoroughly covered by Randell Flint, President of Sundial Systems. Use
the knowledge you gain at this seminar to design your own relational
database systems and expand the ones you work with now.

IBM: Flying in from Austin, Texas is Steven King, IBM's Development
Manager for Network Computing, plus other IBMers including Dennis
Sposato of the Rapid Deployment Team. Steven will show IBM's new Warp
Server for e-Business, TCP/IP enhancements, Domino and Java server
improvements, WorkSpace On-Demand server-managed clients plus the
Windows32 feature for WorkSpace On-Demand, and Warp Server features like
the Journaling File System, the Logical Volume Manager, WebSphere, NT
Server management, and products from IBM's Network Computing Software
Division covering XML, Java, SecureWay, Year2000 and a wide variety of
other important subjects. Dennis will present the new Pre-Execution
Services features including dynamic MAC addressing, remotely controlled
boot manager, and booting to the LAN without a boot chip on the network
card.

BIG GAMES: Warped Jeopardy! Matching wits with the OS/2 elite on a
stage of dreams, this real-life show will be hosted by the talented
President of a major OS/2 software house. Reserved seating is free, and
it's first-come first-served.

SERVERS: Web Server Performance and Scalability by Robert Chapman of
the Institute of Advanced Development Strategies covers what you need to
know about response times, file I/O and communication bottlenecks, the
constraints of the operating system, platform issues, the effect on
performance of various programs including Active Server Pages and
Dynamic HTML, and the new Application Server architectures.

JAVA: Ron Lamb, a Software Developer for Cisco Systems, teaches two
Java classes covering the JDK, language concepts, the tools and
resources you can use, the differences between the Java versions, new
Java2 features, performance, design decisions, development of
server-based Java applications, and this year's JavaOne Conference.

ADVOCACY: Come listen to Lynn Maxson, whose Warpicity project
(complete with specialized smart tools like his Developer's Assistant)
replaces the current development cycle and drives ideas straight to
machine code. Kernels, drivers and application programs all flow from
his methodolgy, and you'll learn the current project status at this most
important lecture.

COMMUNICATIONS: Dave Watson covers visual internet-based
communications like CUSeeMe down through instant messaging, chat,
newsgroups and mail lists, all OS/2 based and all used today in
business, government, education and home office.

MATHEMATICS AND ENGINEERING: Researchers like Ben Archer and Michael
"Rocky" Rakijas need powerful tools when they work, and they use Octave
for signal analysis, curve fitting and the rest of their daily number
crunching. Fast solutions and tricks of the trade are covered in this
vital seminar.

PROGRAMMING: Plenty of programming topics await you, including
Melanie Chernoy's REXX Programming Potpourri covering everything from
REXX basics through stem variables, parsing, and using VREXX2 to add
windows, dialogs and menus to your REXX programs. Developer Stan
Shantar then shows you how to push the limit with his two sessions on
Using REXX And C Together, carefully explaining the exact methods (many
undocumented) you can use to allow each language to do what it does
best. And international consultant Steven Levine presents "How To Write
a Workplace Shell Class" including how to subclass existing desktop
objects so you can leverage the Workplace Shell's functionality into
your own programs, how to build your own Workplace Shell objects, and a
full plate of development and debugging techniques.

Every one of these seminars is free, and you don't want to miss this
all-inclusive day. We have the presentations you want - at Warp Expo
West!

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Warp Expo West admission is free. The show will be held on September
18 near Disneyland in sunny Southern California. All the info is at

http://www.scoug.com/warpexpowest

Sponsored by The Southern California OS/2 User Group.

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