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    CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AND PRE-ANNOUNCEMENT

   OPENFORUM'92 STRATEGY AND BUSINESS CONFERENCE
        ``Open Systems in a Single Market''

 Royal Dutch Fairgrounds, Utrecht, The Netherlands
               November 25-27, 1992


Open   Systems   users,  manufacturers,  system  vendors,  software
developers are all benefitting from the features  and  capabilities
provided  by Open Systems. This conference will examine how each of
these groups is utilising the advantages of Unix and  Open  Systems
to  increase  their  productivity  and  will  provide  solutions to
specific problems encountered by their organisations.


CONFERENCE FORMAT

In addition to invited key-note addresses by top  level  executives
and plenary sessions conducted by technology leaders, the OpenForum
strategy  and  business  conference  is  composed  of  three   main
elements:

 o Panel  sessions which provide multiple points of views on topics
   of interest to users, developers and marketers,
 o Submitted paper presentations  which  provide  a  more  in-depth
   report  on  a  specific  topic  or relate experiences within the
   industry,
 o Tutorial seminars which provide training in specific  topics  of
   interest to end-users, developers and system administrators.


PANEL SESSIONS

Eight  panel  session tracks are planned for the OpenForum strategy
and business Conference:

 o New to Open Systems
 o Organizational advantages of Open Systems
 o Interoperability
 o Technology futures
 o Open Systems solutions
 o Economics of Open Systems
 o Procurement in industry and government
 o Migration strategies

Some tracks may run concurrently. Sessions  will  be  1.5  hour  in
total  length.   Your proposal is to include the topic, content and
intended audience for a session, specifying how  it  relates  to  a
particular  track.  Your  proposal  is to also include the names of
three qualified panelists and a  biographical  statement  from  the
author.   Proposals   must  contain  at  least  200  words  and  be
typewritten.

You, in effect, are the architect of your session. You propose  the
panel  session's  topic,  content and intended audience, specifying
its relationship to the conference theme. Depending on the focus of
the proposal submitted, the panel sessions will be placed in one of
the eight tracks listed.  During the months that precede  OpenForum
you  will  work in conjunction with the Program Committee to select
and instruct the three speakers who will make presentations  during
that session. On site, you or a designated moderator will present a
short introduction to the topic  of  the  session  and,  after  the
speakers  have  finished,  offer  a short wrap-up of the key points
made and lead a short questions and answers period.  Session  which
are  merely  excuses  to  promote  a  company's products are poorly
received and therefore have little chance of being accepted.


SUBMITTED PAPERS

Submitted papers can address  the  topics  below  or  other  topics
deemed to be central to Open Systems:

 o Application portability
 o Interoperability
 o Open Systems and network administration
 o Migration from proprietary environments
 o Human considerations
 o Standards and products
 o Security and risk management
 o Transaction processing
 o Access to "old" information and data
 o Distributed Open Systems environments

Extended  abstracts  must be submitted by March 15th., 1992 by post
or e-mail to the Chair of  the  strategy  and  business  conference
programme.   They   must  be  1000-1200  words  in  length  and  be
typewritten. The proposed subject should relate specifically to the
conference  tracks  or topics. Content should reference current and
new  material.  In  addition  to  a  short  biographical  statement
specifying  the  author(s) experience as it relates to the proposed
subject matter, the intended audience should also be specified.

Accepted submitted papers should be from 8 to 15  pages  in  length
and  fit  into  a  20 minutes presentation. Authors must be able to
meet the August 15th., 1992 deadline for submission  of  the  final
paper. Authors who do not meet this deadline will not be allowed to
present their paper.   Papers  which  merely  profile  a  company's
product  are  poorly  received  and therefore have little chance of
being accepted for presentation.


IMPORTANT DATES

 o Deadline for abstract submissions: 15 March, 1992
 o Acceptance notification: 10 May, 1992
 o Deadline for final papers: 15 August, 1992


STRATEGY AND BUSINESS CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

 o Ed Borkovsky, UNICAN, Canada (Chair)
 o Manuel Carbajo, CEC, Belgium
 o Hans H. Heilborn, Ericsson, Sweden
 o Dominique Maisonneuve, Sligos, France
 o Pierre Scheuer, EurOpen


ADDRESS FOR SENDING SUBMISSIONS

OpenForum Strategy and Business Conference Chair
 Ed Borkovsky
 UNICAN
 c/o UniForum
 2901 Tasman Drive, Suite 201
 Santa Clara, CA 95054
 U.S.A
 Tel: +1 408 986 88 40
 Fax: +1 408 986 16 45
 Email: ed@uniforum.org

Alternatively, in Europe:

 Ed Borkovsky
 UNICAN
 c/o EurOpen
 Owles Hall
 Buntingford, Herts SG9 9PL
 U.K.
 Tel: +44 763 73 039
 Fax: +44 763 73 255
 Email: ed@uniforum.org

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