Diversity, Reality and Management
Alfred Z. Spector
General Manager, IBM Transarc Software, IBM Corporation

There are numerous important technologies in the distributed computing arena and today's question is not which one will win but how to use a collection of  technologies effectively. The world needs distributed IS infrastucture and that need will be met by a number of different naming, security and communication technologies.

Alfred Spector is General Manager of IBM's Transaction Systems Software area. He will discuss key infrastructure technologies, such as CORBA, Enterprise Java, DCE, and more. He will also give an overview of IBM's strategy for application servers and business integration.