For those who care, I'll be attending and speaking. > The New York Software Summit is shaping up to be one of the premiere events > of the year, in terms of diversity and depth of the program. If your job or > business requires you to stay one step ahead in terms of industry trends, > then you should plan to be in Brooklyn all day next Monday. > > WWWAC members and lists subscribers can still register and receive > discounted admission ($125, a $50 savings) until Friday at 3pm. Admission > also gets you in free to the WWWAC Sixth Anniversary Celebration, > immediately following the Summit. To register, please call NYSIA at either > of these following numbers to register by phone for the New York Software > Summit 2000 and mention WWWAC to receive the discount: > > (212) 475-8333 > (212) 475-3368 > (212) 475-4503 > (all major credit cards accepted) > > Summit Hotspots: > > The Afternoon Plenary > > Featured panelists include Dr. Jack Goldman, Founder of Xerox PARC, Simon > Phipps, the Chief Software Evangelist for Sun Microsystems, and Howard > Rubin, Professor at Hunter College and a leading expert on the global > digital divide (among other things). > > Open Source! > With both a Linux track and a Free Software track, open/free software is > very well represented at this event. Highlights include: Miguel De Icaza, > founder of the Gnome Project, the Linux desktop that is now being supported > by Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Sun Microsystems; Akopia.com will talk > about open source e-commerce software; and IBM's Linux Watch Team will > discuss the challenges and opportunities of running Linux on small devices. > > Microsoft Technologies > Rumors of the demise of the Redmond giant are greatly exaggerated. Despite > the ongoing legal woes, MS has pushed forward with new initiatives such as > its Microsoft.net platform and WIndows DNA 2000. Hype or a step forward? > Come find out for yourself. > > Commercial Space > If your firm is still looking for space or trying to understand the > complexities of commercial leases, you should not miss this panel. As > Silicon Alley expands to the outer boroughs, a whole new set of options > become available for your business. > > XML > XML, son of HTML, is ready to help you get your content to devices, PCs and > virtually any networked device. Learn from our panel of experts, moderated > by longtime WWWACie Elliott Rusty Harold; learn how to use XML for wireless > devices from Zagats, as well as other current trends from Kelvin Lawrence of > IBM. > > > Application Service Providers: > There's been a lot of buzz about this new approach to deploying > applications. For developers, it represents an exciting new business model > for offering their applications, while businesses have new options fo > outsourcing and deploying certain functions much more quickly than building > those functions in-house. Learn the pros and cons from the industry > leaders; with CEOs and CTOs from Mi8, US Internetworking, Xuma, Abridge, > Mimeo and Navisite, this is a must-see track if ASPs are on your radar. > > Digital Entertainment and Broadband > At the 1999 Software Summit, we featured Michael Robertson of MP3.com in his > first New York appearance. Since then, worlds have collided as the > entertainment industry tries to cope with new ways to deliver content and > the IT industry tries to cope with the demand for more and cheaper > bandwidth. Panelists include the CEOs of Clickradio and MusicTeller, > Akamai's Director of Broadband Strategies and senior execs from the > companies that are "working the last mile" such as Winstar, Con Edison > Communications and Verizon. > > Pervasive Computing and Wireless Technologies > As we go beyond the browser and into all sorts of network devices, we open > the doors to new forms of business such as m-commerce and a whole new level > of Web intelligence. In this fast-moving environment, today's technologies > are already "legacy'; and tomorrow's technologies are quite amazing. > WWWAC's Bob Frankel is moderating the M-Commercepanel and I will be > moderating Agents of Change. > Michael Dinowitz Publisher - The Fusion Authority (www.fusionauthority.com/alert) ListManager - CF-Talk, CF-Jobs, Spectra-Talk, JRun-Talk, etc. (www.houseoffusion.com) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_community or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
