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From: dlw@odi.com (Dan Weinreb)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: Object-World Conference Review
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.151841.15387@odi.com>
Date: 19 Jun 91 15:18:41 GMT
References: <1991Jun18.124231.11599@grebyn.com>
Reply-To: dlw@odi.com
Organization: Object Design, Inc.
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In-Reply-To: schultz@grebyn.com's message of 18 Jun 91 12:42:31 GMT

In article <1991Jun18.124231.11599@grebyn.com> schultz@grebyn.com (Ronald Schultz) writes:

   For the object naive, this conference I believe was a waste 
   of conference dollars.  The attendees did not even receive a 
   conference proceedings.  

I believe that's typical for this kind of conference.  It's not like
an academic conference.  It's more like a trade show with seminars and
panels.  Things like Object World are often specifically addressed to
people with relatively less technical background, rather than to the
kind of people who would benefit from the kind of academic conferences
that issue conference proceedings.  It sounds to me as if you were
overqualified for Object World.  On the other hand, I agree that these
conferences are often oversold, as if you can just wander in, get all
the answers to all the hard real-world management questions, and
wander back out.

					 The real force of 
   object technology, at least in the commercial marketplace, 
   seems a minimum of three to five years away.

If you mean that there's likely to be substantially wider use of
object technology in three to five years than there is now, I agree
with that.  Despite the usual characterization of the computer world
as being "fast-paced", it takes a lot of time for new ideas to spread
all around.