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From: klimas@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: Object-World Conference Review
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.101752.4921@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
Date: 20 Jun 91 15:17:51 GMT
References: <1991Jun18.124231.11599@grebyn.com>
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In article <1991Jun18.124231.11599@grebyn.com>, schultz@grebyn.com (Ronald Schultz) writes:
> 
> Trip Report for Object-World
> San Francisco - June 3-7
> Prepared by Ron Schultz

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> At the point 
> attendance exceeded 2000 TCP-IP and OSI were what could be 
> considered mainstream.  Object World attendance seemed less 
> than 400 people, yet I was told by the show staff that 
> registered attendance was over 2500.  The real force of 
> object technology, at least in the commercial marketplace, 
> seems a minimum of three to five years away.
> 
> I would like to hear other people's comments about Object World.
> Thanx.
	I think a more realistic barometer of the technology's growth
	is OOPSLA which does do exceedingly well with over 2000 attendees
	last fall (and IBM folk were session chairs).  I think a lot of OOP
	practitioners are saving their "recesionized" OOP travel budgets 
	for that event.