The Open Group Member Conference : Miami, July 1998

Post-Conference Documentation (available to Open Group members only

Highlights of the Conference (available to non-members)

CONFERENCE INTRANET ACCESS
Information on how to access the Miami Conference Intranet.

ARE THESE YOUR CHALLENGES?
Choosing best-of-breed applications and deploying them globally
Integrating business systems securely across the extended enterprise
Managing and securing heterogeneous infrastructures
Take practical steps toward managing this complexity!

WHY ATTEND?
Join speakers from AlliedSignal, CNN, IBM, Kinexis, Saab, Securities Industry Middleware Council (SIMC), Sun Microsystems, and others. Plenary presentations and interactive sessions discuss how customers are investing in, integrating and deploying these technologies.
Hear about the state of distributed management and application management in Special Management Briefings.
Address Kerberos, GSSAPI, PKI, and DCE security issues, in an Introduction to DCE & DCE Security.
Learn about the business value of The Open Group Architecture Framework Method.
Gain the latest news from a core group of CDSA platform and product vendors at our CDSA Product Day.
Explore in technical depth the major issues affecting Distributed Computing. We have produced a discussion paper [PDF] for you to download before the conference.
Discuss requirements for securing heterogeneous environments in interactive customer/vendor forums.
Learn about the IT DialTone™ and the critical role security plays in its evolution.
Network with your peers and leverage your influence.

VIEW DEMONSTRATIONS
DASCOM, Compaq, Gradient, HP, IBM, Inprise, Intel, Motorola, Sun Microsystems, and other exhibitors
Object Request Brokers, Java, CDSA, Public Key Infrastructure/DCE, and DCE/CORBA interoperability

PROGRAM GROUP PARTICIPATION (open to members only*)
Our Architecture Framework, Business Transactions, Distributed Computing Environment (DCE), Management, Network Client, and Security program groups each have their usual rich agendas which drive interactive discussions. Speakers include:

Apple, Compaq, DASCOM, D.H. Brown & Associates, Entrust, Gradient, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Inprise, Intel, Motorola, RSA, Sun Microsystems, MITRE, Tivoli, and others

The Component Software Technology program has a strong agenda in the areas of Java, Java certification and CORBA Interoperability.

*Note: The first two days of the DCE and Security program groups are open to non-members for
this conference.

Conference attendance is normally open only to our members. We are extending a special invitation to non-members to attend Monday through Wednesday of our five-day conference. Cost for non-member attendance is $295/day or $495 for the 3-day portion. Members attend free of charge as a benefit of membership.

WHY THE OPEN GROUP?

"The Open Group provided a forum that addressed the issues that organizations needed to hear about. Not only that, we got information on approaches that we could take away and apply." Hal Wilson, Vice President & General Manager, Litton PRC

"The Open Group has contributed to our ability to identify and meet with business peers and IT partners. In an atmosphere centered in business requirements and open discussion, our involvement has provided us with both early warning and strategic vision to support rational decisions and guide our business." Ronald Becker Williams, Application and Security Architecture Technology Planning Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc

"The depth of understanding and the willingness to share experience and expertise makes The Open Group meetings a "must go" in my calendar". Nick Price, Director of IT Architecture, Dairy Farm, International

"I was impressed with the activities and energy of the DCE Program Group. The demonstration of Public Key Infrastructure/DCE showed impressive functionality and excellent vendor cooperation." Randall Burris, Center for Computational Science, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

CORBA is a trademark of Object Management Group
JavaBeans is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
IT DialTone is a trademark of The Open Group.