Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!sun-barr!newstop!sun!hardrock!crane
From: crane@hardrock.Sun.COM (Bill Crane)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: 1990 X11 Connectathon
Keywords: windows interoperability
Message-ID: <128525@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 29 Nov 89 09:22:23 GMT
Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM
Reply-To: crane@sun.UUCP (Bill Crane)
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View
Lines: 33

I'd like to encourage all X application and server vendors to attend 
Connectathon '90!

This will be a great opportunity to test the interoperability 
of your clients with X servers from a number of different vendors.

Where else can you talk with a vendor's X developer about the problems 
you're having with their server/clients, then proceed to fix the code 
and test it right away?

This is a development event, not a Trade Show!!!  We expect 
developers to bring their most recent implementations under 
development and test them.  If something's wrong, fix it and 
keep on testing.  

Connectathon is entering its fifth year.  It started out as a way
to test interoperability of different vendors versions of NFS, 
last year we added windows.  We had 51 NFS and 27 windows vendors.
We will still have our NxN testing of X servers with clients, but 
we're expecting a dramatic increase in the number application 
vendors this year.

If you have an application that you would like tested, but can't 
attend, we'll have file servers set up so developers can test and 
relay their comments back to you.

When:   Feb 14-22, 1990  (registration and pre-testing Feb 6-13)
Where:  San Mateo Expo Center, California (near San Francisco Airport)

For more information, please send mail to cthon@sun.com.

Bill Crane
Mgr. Portable Windows